Art in America

Maximilíano Durón, Painter William T. Williams Has Stayed Curious on the Canvas for Six Decades

The Art Newspaper

Sophia Kishkovsky, Russia’s revered ‘Trinity’ icon reportedly warped after climate control system breaks down

Gareth Harris, Ukrainian Orthodox ‘treasures’ from Kyiv monastery go on view at the V&A in London

Elena Goukassian, Metropolitan Museum breaks ground on long-awaited new wing for Modern and contemporary art

Sarvy Geranpayeh, London gallery brings together 200 works by Iranian artists as part of ‘very special’ joint initiative

Mark Asch, A biting satire of the art world’s transactional wokeness

Carlie Porterfield, Ellie Rines opens new Tribeca gallery after a decade in Chinatown

Artforum

From the Editors, Pem Lham Wins $30k Rubin Museum Himalayan Art Prize

From the Editors, In About-Face, British Museum Bans Photography of Bayeux Tapestry

From the Editors, Ching-Ling Wang Named Nancy Chang Lee Curator of Chinese Art at Smithsonian

From the Editors, New Museum Appoints Ten New Trustees

Artnet

Min Chen, How Gemini G.E.L. Spent 60 Years Reinventing the Art of Printmaking

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Giotto and Cimabue Masterpieces in Assisi Get a Digital Revival

Min Chen, Frank Lloyd Wright Gem Hits the Market for $2.1M

Amah-Rose Abrams, Johnny Marr on Selling His Prized Guitars: ‘This Is Hugely Personal’

Richard Whiddington, Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis Go Dutch on $13M Painting

ARTnews

Tessa Solomon, Brooklyn Museum, American Folk Art Museum, and Whitney Museum Unions Vote in Favor of Strikes

Daniel Cassady, Three Works of Sacred Art Stolen From Spanish Churches as Authorities Warn of Rise in Art Theft

Daniel Cassady, Artadia Names Allison Derusha as New Executive Director

Andy Battaglia, Joan Mitchell Foundation Publishes Extensive Report on Artist Legacy Stewardship

Tessa Solomon, Federal Judge Again Rules Trump Cannot Add Name to Kennedy Center

Alex Greenberger, Painter Lucy Bull Joins Hauser & Wirth as Her Market Continues Its Ascent

Brian Boucher, Fresh off Knicks Championship, NBA All-Star Karl-Anthony Towns to Curate a Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale with Lifestyle Mogul Jordyn Woods

Brian Boucher, Chelsea Building Housing Two Art Galleries Will Go to Auction, But the Dealers Plan to Stay Put

Sarah Douglas, Artist Documentary Maker Art21 Launches Searchable Archive of Unseen Footage

Francesca Aton, Rare Marble Bust by America’s First-Known Female Sculptor Discovered in English Garden

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s Is Opening a Parisian Restaurant Filled With $150 M. of Art During Art Basel Paris

Alex Greenberger, Jordan Wolfson’s Mysterious Gagosian Show Apparently Includes AI Imagery, 9/11 References

Francesca Aton, Amid $22 M. Deficit, New York’s School of Visual Arts Shutters Photography MFA Program

Maximilíano Durón, Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis Jointly Acquire Hendrick Avercamp Winter Landscape

Hikmat Mohammed, Gagosian Director Antwaun Sargent Curated the Walter De Maria Sculptures at Calvin Klein’s Spring 2027 Show

Maximilíano Durón, The Black Schoolhouse in New Orleans Looks to Offer a New Model of Arts Education and Community Building

Sarah Douglas, The ARTnews Accord: Collectors J. Tomilson Hill and Lonti Ebers On What It Means to Support Art Today

ArtReview

Henry Roberts, The Pessimistic Venice Film Festival 2026

From the Editors, Liang Shaoji, who made his art with silkworms, 1945–2026

From the Editors, Aracy Amaral, trailblazing Brazilian art historian, 1930–2026

The Atlantic

Sebastian Smee, The Artist Who Ripped Up the Rules of Drawing

Financial Times

Jackie Wullschläger, Timeless Tintoretto review — the Italian artist who brought Heaven down to Earth

EDITOR’S PICK - Melanie Gerlis, The received wisdom is that tech titans don’t care for art. Is it true?: Gallerists and auction houses are hoping for an influx of cash as digital entrepreneurs begin to make their presence felt in the collecting community.

The Guardian

Charlotte Jansen, ‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life

Alice Fisher, ‘She went to her studio every day and no one was allowed near it’: the glorious nature paintings of Yasmin David

Andrew Pulver, James McNeill Whistler review – painter’s work shines through attention-grabbing life story

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Elizabeth Holmes, But Make It Art

Rhea Nayyar, Staff at Three Major Museums Vote to Strike

Valentina Di Liscia, Met Museum Breaks Ground on New Modern and Contemporary Wing

Emma Cieslik, 10 Art Shows to See in DC This Fall

Rhea Nayyar, Staff at Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and American Folk Art Museum Authorize Strike

Max Blue, Mildred Howard Enters History Through the Everyday

Valentina Di Liscia, Why Would the Art World Deceive You?

From the Editors, Barbara Hammer Gets Her Due

Aruna D’Souza, The Many Islands of “America”

The Los Angeles Times

Kevin Rector, Prompted by new California and U.S. laws, two new lawsuits demand return of Nazi-looted art

The New York Times

Robin Pogrebin, Trump Administration Outlines Plan for Signs Outside Smithsonian Museum

Gia Kourlas, An Elusive Choreographer Is Turning MoMA Into a Dance Palace

Observer

Christa Terry, This Gloucester Exhibition Looks at David Hockney Through the Eyes of a Friend

Elisa Carollo, Collector Dick Hedreen Has Sold Artworks Before, But This Time the Proceeds Will Build a Museum

Jordan Riefe, The de Young’s New Egypt Show Draws From Two of the Past Century’s Biggest Discoveries

Sarah Moroz, In Arles, Photography and Art Ease the Transition from Summer into Fall

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Make the SAM Great Again: Seattle Art Museum makes Trump jab over construction

Adam Schrader, Artist to project Hudson Canyon onto Brooklyn Bridge to push for sanctuary status

The Wall Street Journal

Judith H. Dobrzynski, A Detective’s Perspective on the Rapid Rise in Art Theft

Kelly Crow, What Brice Marden’s Family Makes of His Legacy

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The Art Newspaper

Gameli Hamelo, New cultural centre focused on archiving Ghana’s history to open in Accra

Rachel Kubrick, Renoir show at London’s National Gallery sees record tickets sales ahead of opening

Osman Can Yerebakan, Dealers make moves around Manhattan

Mark Asch, Documentary traces Sara Flores’s journey from the Amazon to the pinnacle of the art world

Artforum

From the Editors, Trump Orders Smithsonian to Replace “Strange Modernist Sculpture” with Three-Story-High Washington Statue

From the Editors, Struggling School of Visual Arts Axes Photography MFA Program

From the Editors, Vincent Delieuvin Named Director of Louvre’s Painting Department

From the Editors, Stolen Eastman Johnson Paintings Recovered

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Think You Know Yayoi Kusama? A New Show Asks Us to Look Closer

Vittoria Benzine, Knicks Legend Karl-Anthony Towns and Jordyn Woods Curate a Sotheby’s Auction

Ben Davis, A Plague of Padded-Out Art Shows—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Dana Barnes’s Storied Studio Could Be Yours for $10.95M

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, British Museum U-turns on Photography of Bayeux Tapestry, While Conservators Discover Two New Small Breaks After Arrival in UK

Leigh Anne Miller, Pro-Palestine Activists Protest at British Museum During Bayeux Tapestry Exhibition’s Opening Weekend

Andy Battaglia, 300-Pound Faun Sculpture Stolen from French Zoo in the ’90s Heads Home

Tessa Solomon, Prized Gertrude Abercrombie Painting, Priced at $30 at an Estate Sale, Heads to Auction for $250,000

Anne Doran, Using AI, Scientists Recreate the Sights and Sounds of 2,500-Year-Old Tombs

Tessa Solomon, Lawsuit Alleges Warhol Forgery Scheme Spanning Florida, Peru, and Philadelphia

Alex Greenberger, Charlie Kirk’s Widow Denounces Vandalism of Statue in Arizona: ‘His Instinct Was Always to Build, Not Destroy’

Daniel Cassady, Sotheby’s to Offer $90 M. in Art from Richard Hedreen’s Collection, Ahead of Major University Gift

Francesca Aton, Kennedy Center’s Future Hangs in the Balance as Report Warns of Imminent Closure

Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, Net.Art Pioneer Olia Lialina on the Practice of Preservation

EDITOR’S PICK - Brian Boucher, Thousands of Art Nonprofits Command Billions in Assets. A New York Conference Sheds Light on an Under-Studied Sector: Stoa has gathered arts nonprofit founders and leaders in Paris and Venice, and now their starry convening is happening in New York.

Alex Greenberger, Arthur Jafa Addresses His Work for Kanye West: ‘I’m Not Into Discarding Black Folk Simply for Things They Say’

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, Who Is Maurizio Cattelan For?

From the Editors, Liang Shaoji, who made his art with silkworms, 1945–2026

From the Editors, Marlies Ritter, ceramicist who thought with her hands, 1941–2026

The Atlantic

Kelsey Ables, Why Does Donald Trump Hate This Sculpture?

Cultured

Sam Falb, How a Warhol Portrait Landed in the Middle of Carolina Herrera’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection

Isabella Bernstein, Meet the Artist Behind Hermès’s Surreal New Window Display in New York

Frieze

Louisa Elderton, Georgia Gardner Gray Taps Into the Theatre of Stonehenge

The Guardian

Andrew Pulver, James McNeill Whistler review – painter’s work shines through attention-grabbing life story

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Alfredo Jaar’s America

Hakim Bishara, Alfredo Jaar Is Still Trying to Change the World

Rhea Nayyar, Another Abstract Public Artwork Faces Trump’s Senseless Ire

From the Editors, Member Event: ISCP Ground Floor Studio Visits

Olivia McEwan, James McNeill Whistler’s Music for the Eyes

Isabella Segalovich, Keith Haring Mural May Decide the Fate of Public Art in Philly

Anna Lee, A Twisted Sculpture Lands on Manhattan’s High Line

Natalie Weis, Madelon Vriesendorp’s Subconscious Cities

Rhea Nayyar, Activists Protest Bayeux Tapestry Sponsor’s Ties to Israeli Settlements

Emiline Smith, Europe’s Art Theft Problem Is Much Bigger Than the Louvre

The New York Times

Walker Mimms, Camille Henrot, Polyglot of Arts and Letters, in the Triple Spotlight

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Genesis Belanger’s Classically Inspired Public Art Is a Commentary on Modern-Day Unease

Elisa Carollo, MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Is Experientially Compelling But Curatorially Thin

Puck

Dan Duray, Inside Danh Vo

Vogue

Liam Hess, This Season’s LFW It Piece? The British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry Merch

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, What Brice Marden’s Family Makes of His Legacy

Whitehot

Noah Becker, Terrence Sanders-Smith on the Life and Loss of His Son, Lucien Smith

Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Starting at the End: Roy Lichtenstein: 1997 at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Lara Pan, When Time Slows Down: Teodora Axente in Siena

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Art in America

Nicole Kaack, How Janine Antoni Simultaneously Disturbs and Delights

Emily Watlington, 5 Books on Dena Yago’s Shelf

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Largest Roman mosaic opens to the public

Anzhela Khachaturova, Major Swiss museum acquisition proves far larger after extra works revealed in donor’s unopened portfolios

Anna Brady, Marlow Moss, overshadowed De Stijl pioneer, gets first London show in decades

Artforum

Pablo Larios, New Drone Gods: Cao Fei Follows the Tech to the Provinces

Emily Sandstrom, Pop Art: Walking All Over New York’s New Balloon Museum

Bennett Smith, Serious Play: Pope.L Balances Anguish with Humor

From the Editors, Collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos Donates 51 Works to Greek and Scottish Museums

From the Editors, After Many Delays, Kanal-Centre Pompidou in Brussels Will Open in November

Artnet

Kenny Schachter, Go Rogue! Kenny Schachter Has Advice for Artists—and as Usual, Scoops!

Margaret Carrigan, Embattled Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy, Closure—and Other Art World Matters

EDITOR’S PICK - Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Are Fairs and Museums Getting Too Cozy?: Plus, Bonhams pilots a new resale-royalties scheme and fashion mogul Peter Simon’s collection heads to Christie’s.

Vittoria Benzine, Bob Ross Paintings, Found on Craigslist, Could Fetch Six Figures at Auction

Vittoria Benzine, Florentina Holzinger on What Her First Ukraine Trip Taught Her About Art and War

Katya Kazakina, Thomas Ruff’s 9/11 JPEGs Broke My Heart All Over Again

Jo Lawson-Tancred, U.K. Pushes to Standardize Auction Data—and More Industry Intel

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Alice Diop to Take on Miu Miu’s 2026 Art Basel Paris Commission

Tessa Solomon, Trump Demands ‘Strange Modernist’ Sculpture Be Replaced by George Washington Statue

Maximilíano Durón, ‘I Live for My Art. That’s Really All There Is to It’: Read One of Yayoi Kusama’s Final Unpublished Interviews

Devorah Lauter, French Artist Claude Lévêque Ordered to Stand Trial for Rape and Sexual Assault of Minors

Hikmat Mohammed, Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth Sculpture in London Receives Mixed Reviews

Brian Boucher, Tensions Ran High as Charlie Kirk Memorial Sculpture Was Unveiled in Times Square

Francesca Aton, Ancient Mausoleum Discovered Along Peruvian Coast

Maximilíano Durón, Rosalyn Drexler’s Art Shines at New York’s Garth Greenan Gallery and Rachel Comey’s Runway Show

Alex Greenberger, George W. Bush Reveals New 9/11 Paintings: ‘When America Is in Trouble, Americans Respond’

Devorah Lauter, Before Thieves Stole A Now-Missing Renoir Painting, Family Says Nazis Had Already Done So—And It Belongs to Them.

ArtReview

Nicole Kaack, Sophie Becker’s House of Puppets

Declan Long, The Lesser-Told Story of the Carnsore Folk Festivals

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Kate Millett: The Crisis of Visual Language

From the Editors, Marlies Ritter, ceramicist who thought with her hands, 1941–2026

The Atlantic

James Parker, George Lucas’s Next Great Epic Is an Art Museum

Susan Tallman, Look Closer: Edward Steichen’s Sunflower

The Brooklyn Rail

Ami Xherro, Notes from the Flamingo Revolution

Jessica Saxby, Association A4: Migrant Farmers, Agro-Ecology, and Anti-Fascism

Kate Shannon Jenkins, Women Sleeping

J. Caurine, Accidents Will Happen

Financial Times

Jackie Wullschläger, High Waters by Massimiliano Gioni — what makes a good Venice Biennale?

The Guardian

Briana Ellis-Gibbs, ‘He would have been the center of everything’: the art exhibition imagining if Emmett Till lived

Edward Helmore, Trump asks Smithsonian to install ‘Colossus statue’ of George Washington with exhibit

Charlotte Higgins, Bayeux tapestrymania has gripped Britain. But what does it say about our own age of war and upheaval?

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Good Muslim Artist, Bad Muslim Artist

Hakim Bishara, The Battle of New York

Naeem Mohaiemen, Standing in the Shadow of No Towers

Anna Lee, Brooklyn, Say Hello to Your First Craft Supply Library

Phillip Pyle, Anna Lee and Rhea Nayyar, 15 Fall Art -Ennials, From St. Louis to Dakar

Rhea Nayyar, School of Visual Arts Ends Photography MFA Program

David S. Rubin, Joel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

Chanelle Chevelle Russel, Pope.L Invites Us to Think Through the American Dream

The New York Times

Holland Cotter, Arthur Jafa, the Great Disrupter, Readies a ‘Big Bang’

Aruna D’Souza, Don’t Call Him Pop: A New, Improved Roy Lichtenstein Is at the Whitney

Zachary Small, An Indigenous Painter Sees a Vermeer, and the Sparks Fly

Julia Jacobs, Kennedy Center Warns of Bankruptcy Unless Trump’s Name Is Added

Jane Margolies, An Art School Building Reveals Skills Beneath the Skin

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Seoul’s ParkSeoBo Museum Isn’t a Temple to Its Namesake

John Scott Lewinski, 25 Years Later, 9/11’s Artifacts Still Call for a Different Level of Curatorial Care

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Labor board defers charge that The Met fired a worker over union activity

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: NLRB defers a discipline charge against the Met to arbitration

Adam Schrader, Rochester’s Memorial Art Gallery sets spring 2027 for free admission

Adam Schrader, Eastman Museum workers allege anti-union campaign after filing for election

Vanity Fair

Eve Batey, A New Photo Exhibit Asks a Heartbreaking Question: What If Emmett Till Had Lived?

Nate Freeman, Move Over, Chelsea: Tribeca Is New York’s New Gallery Mecca

The Wall Street Journal

Julia Halperin, A New Lawsuit Alleges an International Andy Warhol Forgery Scheme

Melik Kaylan, ‘Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy’ Review: East Meets West, Beautifully, at the Met

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Art in America

Carlo Valladares, Ragnar Kjartansson Is the Great Romantic Artist for Our Age of Loneliness

Andy Battaglia, Curator Jordan Carter Shares Five Recent Obsessions

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF

Jane Morris, Gerhard Richter’s mosaic-like Doha pavilion will open in November

Riah Pryor, UK to standardise auction data, as sector rallies support for a new trade body

Helen Stoilas, Epstein files reading room and bookmobile begin US tour in Dallas

Martin Bailey, Review | ‘£1 a minute’: is the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition worth it?

Ben Luke, The Bayeux Tapestry, damaged heritage in Iran, Tschabalala Self’s Trafalgar Square sculpture—podcast

Martin Bailey, Jewish collectors in Germany once helped make Berlin the Van Gogh capital of Europe

Artforum

From the Editors, 2026 Winners of $50,000 Rabkin Prize Announced

From the Editors, Gerhard Richter–Designed Pavilion Celebrating the Artist to Rise in Doha

From the Editors, Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director

From the Editors, Tschabalala Self Unveils Fourth Plinth Sculpture in London

Artnet

Adam Lindemann, Lunch With Adam: David Salle on Museum Malpractice, Art World Politics, and Painting Today

Ben Davis, The 2026 Gwangju Biennale in Pictures

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Tschabalala Self’s ‘Lady in Blue’ Storms London

Vittoria Benzine, $10M Worth of Lichtenstein Works Hit the Market Ahead of Whitney Blockbuster

Sonia Manalili and Ben Davis, Why Are Museum Wall Texts So Bad?

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Diana’s ‘Revenge Dress’ Heads to Auction—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Gerhard Richter Goes Monumental With New Doha Pavilion

EDITOR’S PICK - Margaret Carrigan, Fair-Brokered Museum Prizes Are Multiplying. Here’s Why: Who is gaining what from these partnerships?

Caroline Goldstein, Trump’s ‘Beautification’ Blitz Continues—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Andy Battaglia, Qatar Is Building a Permanent Pavilion for Gerhard Richter to Open in November

Brian Boucher, ‘The American Public Has No Love for a CEO’: Stanya Kahn On Her Riveting Video of Social Posts About Luigi Mangione

Hikmat Mohammed, UAE Minister Says Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Will Tell a New Story About the Middle East, Despite the Ongoing War

Alex Greenberger, See Inside Maurizio Cattelan’s Highly Anticipated Berlin Show, Featuring a Sculpture Made with Human Remains

Brian Boucher, Billionaire Igor Tulchinsky, Who Sponsored the Bayeux Tapestry’s UK Sojourn, Also Funded a Mental Health Facility in an Illegal West Bank Settlement

Anne Doran, The Largest Ancient Roman Wall Mosaic Ever Found Goes on Public View

Francesca Aton, “Urgent Action” Needed to Protect a World Heritage-Listed Temple in Cambodia

ArtReview

Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe, Kate Millett: The Crisis of Visual Language

Xenia Benivolski, ‘Call me gravity’: The Physicality of Debt

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, A flurry of art and architecture in Egypt’s Golden Age, at the MFA

The Brooklyn Rail

Lauren Levato Coyne, Cecilia Vicuña, Sam Frésquez, Lola Ayisha Ogbara: Spatial Poems

Joseph Akel, Hujar:Contact

Eleanor Heartney, Tarot! Renaissance Symbols, Modern Visions

Billy McEntee, Nari Ward: Until That Day

Valerie Mindlin, Richard Paul Lohse

Charles Duncan, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World

Financial Times

From the Editors, The best art exhibitions to see in London right now

Frieze

Juliet Jacques, Del LaGrace Volcano Shows a Community to Itself

Grace Byron, Must-See: For Yvonne Jacquette, Perspective Was a Great Pursuit

The Guardian

Steven Morris, A bee’s-eye view: art installation beside the Thames celebrates crucial pollinators

Lauren Kelly, ‘The place lost its way. Now that’s changed’: can a Manchester art museum move beyond its troubled past?

Jonathan Jones, A rollicking statue, Beryl’s buddies and a swimming pool in a roundabout – the week in art

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Artists Reflect on 25 Years Since 9/11

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Artists Reflect on 9/11 and the Wounds of the “War on Terror”

Valentina Di Liscia, Kathleen V. Jameson Named Speed Museum Director

Rhea Nayyar, Brooklyn Museum Displays Work of Artist Killed in 9/11 on 25th Anniversary

Lisa Yin Zhang, A Portrait of an Artist as a Dominatrix

Naomi Polonsky, Tschabalala Self’s Splendid “Lady in Blue” Graces London’s Fourth Plinth

The New York Times

Jason Farago, Unstitching the 1,000-Year-Old Story of the Bayeux Tapestry

Emily LaBarge, Lose Yourself in Yayoi Kusama’s Last Show

Jane Margolies, An Art School Building Reveals Skills Beneath the Skin

Flora Stubbs, It’s Time for a Fall Reset

Observer

Ana Beatriz Reitz, Scott W Mason Sketches Fashion’s Biggest Moments

Elisa Carollo, How Gayane Umerova Is Shepherding Uzbekistan’s Cultural Transformation

Georges Berges, An Insider’s Indictment of an Isolated Art World

T Magazine

Siddhartha Mitter, What Happens When a Painter Abandons Paint?

Nick Haramis, Is Jeff Koons’s Greatest Artwork Being Jeff Koons?

From the Editors, Everyone Has Something to Say About Jeff Koons

The Wall Street Journal

William Meyers, ‘W. Eugene Smith and the Art of Witnessing’ Review: Indelible Images

The Washington Post

Jonathan Edwards, Facing historic White House pressure, Smithsonian tells the history of 9/11

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Art in America

Nathan Stobaugh, Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative

The Art Newspaper

EDITOR’S PICK - Scott Reyburn, From Poussin to Pokémon: why attitudes towards collecting art are shifting: Dealers are cutting costs, and collectors are seeking bargains. Welcome to the new normal.

Gareth Harris, ‘A tribute to everyday women’: Tschabalala Self’s Fourth Plinth commission unveiled in London

Elena Goukassian, Writers for Artforum, The New York Times and others win $50,000 Rabkin Prizes

Florence Hallett, Paris exhibition presents Tintoretto alongside his French fanboys

Artforum

Jason Moran, Jason Moran on Toni Morrison, Joan Jonas, and the art of listening

David J. Getsy, Scott Burton and Eduardo Costa’s airmail confessions

From the Editors, Freelands Foundation Announces £100,000 Annually for Three UK Arts Organizations

From the Editors, National Gallery’s Robert Stein Named Executive Director of Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth

From the Editors, US’s Oldest Natural History Museum, in Philly, to Close

Artnet

EDITOR’S PICK - Katya Kazakina, Less Is More: Inside the Art World’s New Season of Recalibration:

Caroline Goldstein, Trump’s ‘Beautification’ Blitz Continues—and Other Art World Matters

Ben Davis, Wall Labels Are in a Sorry State. Here’s How to Fix Them

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Amon Carter Museum Taps Tech-Savvy Exec as Its New Director

Min Chen, Futura and Lego Are Building Something Together—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, Princess Diana’s Revenge Dress Returns to Sotheby’s With $300,000 Price Tag

Salomé Gómez-Upegui, Sandra Vásquez De La Horra’s Dreamlike Drawings Unite Nature and Humanity

Tessa Solomon, Rabkin Foundation Names Eight Winners of Its 2026 Arts Journalism Grants

Devorah Lauter, After a Turbulent Decade and Multiple Delays, Brussels’s Kanal-Centre Pompidou Will Open in November. Not Everyone Is Happy About It.

Alex Greenberger, Getty Center Closes After Fire Breaks Out Along Los Angeles’s 405 Freeway

Maximilíano Durón, Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Names New Director

Alex Greenberger, Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Faces Lawsuit over Whether It Truly Is a Private Museum at All

Francesca Aton, Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection Donates 51 Artworks to Four Museums in Greece and Scotland

Francesca Aton, Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Finland’s Largest Viking-Age Silver Hoard

Andy Battaglia, Basel Social Club Launches Japanese Counterpart for Art Week Tokyo

Lisa Lockwood, Diotima Unveils Fall Ad Campaign Inspired by Artist Wilfredo Lam’s Afro-Cuban Symbolism and History

Devorah Lauter, Three Stolen Renoir Paintings May Have Been Nazi Looted

Hikmat Mohammed, Jeff Koons Teams Up with Hublot for a New Watch Collaboration

Nathan Stobaugh, Valie Export Was Ahead of Her Time and as Subtle as She Was Provocative

ArtReview

Emily McDermott, The Interview: Ana María Caballero

The Atlantic

Clint Smith, What Lonnie Bunch Told Me

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, Native American artist Sky Hopinka awarded prestigious Rappaport Prize

The Brooklyn Rail

Mark Hudson, John Currin: Opening Credits

Cal McKeever, Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind

Robert Alan Grand, Entirely Preventable: The Toxic Legacy of Silica Dust from Hawks Nest to Black Lung

Horacio Ramos, Chonon Bensho: Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow

Jillian Russo, Guadalupe Maravilla & Emery Blagdon: The star exploding in the body

The Guardian

Hettie O’Brien, Thursday briefing: 68 facts about the Bayeux tapestry as it goes on display

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Testicle Art Is So Back

Ed Simon, Lonnie Bunch’s Resignation Is a Wake-Up Call

Sarah Reisman, The Counterpublic Triennial’s New Kind of Public Space

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Jean-François Leroy, Lucien Smith, and Jibby Beane

Phillip Pyle, A Brief History of Testicle Art

Rhea Nayyar, Striking Workers Shutter Three V&A London Locations

Anna Lee, Trust in US Museums Grows Across Party Lines, Survey Finds

Ela Bittencourt, Women Painters Lead Brazil’s New Wave of Figuration

The Los Angeles Times

Jessica Gelt, From Banksy to Boba Fett: A map of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art

Emily St. Martin, Lucien Smith, multidisciplinary artist and art world fixture of the 2010s, dies at 37

Jane Horowitz, Will the Lucas Museum upend the art world? Depends if the people embrace ‘the people’s art’

The New York Times

Aruna D’Souza, An Artist Inspired by Men Behaving Badly

Alex Marshall, A Nation Gripped by ‘Bayeux Fever’ Finally Gets to See the Tapestry

Alex Marshall, How to See a Bayeux Tapestry — Without Going to the British Museum

Zachary Small, Can the 9/11 Museum Tell Its Story for Another 25 Years?

David Allen, A Paradise Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views

Observer

Siddhant Adlakha, Screening at Venice: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s ‘The Burning Giants’

Daniel Grant, Experts Agree Chinese Porcelain’s Value Rests on Who Made It and For Whom

Elisa Carollo, Tom Sachs Recreated Chanel’s Paris Flagship Out of Plywood and Paint in Chinatown

The Washington Post

Jonathan Edwards, Smithsonian chief to retire as Trump fights to reshape the institution

Philip Kennicott, It’s up to Chief Justice Roberts to preserve the Smithsonian’s independence

Whitehot

Bella Greenbacher, Seeking an Emotional Truth: An Interview with Scott Kahn

Liam Otero, Exhibition Review: “Circa 1971: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation” at the Sun Valley Museum of Art, Ketchum, Idaho

Liam Otero, Opinion: Why serious art lovers need to visit MFA & BFA thesis exhibitions

Noah Becker, Interview: Painter Michele LeMaitre on the Meaning of Water, Movement and Light

Jakob Dwight, In Conversation: Derriann Pharr and Her Pursuit of Transcendence

Liam Otero, Danit Weitzman - Winner of the Liam Otero Prize, Critics Choice Exhibition, Ki Smith Gallery

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The Art Newspaper

Elena Goukassian, Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch to retire

Dale Berning Sawa, How Trump’s signature bill could make arts education in the US even more expensive

Douglas Markowitz, ‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero

Gareth Harris, Three UK arts organisations receive new £100,000 Freelands Foundation education award

Artforum

From the Editors, Lucien Smith, Whose Meteoric Rise Presaged a Diverse Second Act, Dies at 37

From the Editors, Lonnie G. Bunch III Resigns as Secretary of the Smithsonian

From the Editors, Japan Art Association Announces 2026 Praemium Imperiale Laureates

From the Editors, Beyoncé Gives a $2 Million Birthday Gift to the Studio Museum

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Worth the Wait! The Bayeux Tapestry’s British Museum Debut Is a Hard-Won Triumph

Min Chen, Futura and Lego Are Building Something Together—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, $2M Cache of Rare Oasis Recordings Goes to Auction, Despite Band’s Concerns

Gabi Vida- Irizarry, Lucien Smith, Inventive Painter and Downtown Art-World Fixture, Dies at 37

Vittoria Benzine, Smithsonian Chief Lonnie Bunch III Steps Down as White House Targets the Institution

ARTnews

Daniel Cassady, Eric Firestone to Open Fifth Gallery in West Palm Beach

Julie Brener Davich, Kasseem Dean and Alicia Keys Team Up with Bonhams for Initiative That Gives Artists a Cut of Secondary-Market Sales

Hikmat Mohammed, Christie’s to Auction Peter Simon’s $172 M. Art Collection, Led by Bacon, Mondrian, Warhol Works

Hikmat Mohammed, Planned SANAA Architect Project in Hungary to Be Turned Into Public Parkland

Sarah Belmont, Eight Must-See Islands for Art Lovers

Maximilíano Durón, Philippe Parreno’s ‘Iceman’ Sculpture Will Melt Away at Independent 20th Century

Anne Doran, Well-Preserved Tomb of Ancient Egyptian Official Found Near Saqqara

Leigh Anne Miller, Production Mold for Ancient Female Figurine Discovered in Jerusalem

Alex Greenberger, Clive Davis’s Warhol, Hockney Paintings Head to Christie’s During Marquee New York Sales

Brian Boucher, Five Standouts at Portland’s Converge 45 Triennial, From a Gourd Frieze to a Performance That Played with Fire

Tessa Solomon, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch to Retire as Trump Targets Museum Consortium

Brian Boucher, Lucien Smith, Onetime Market Darling Who Turned His Focus To Helping Emerging Artists, Has Died at 37

Francesca Aton, Oxford University Museum to Repatriate 39 Colonial-Era Human Remains

William D. Cohan, The Man Who Bought The Scream: Collector Leon Black’s Reckoning Is Far from Over

Alex Greenberger, Former Chairman of Kennedy Center Buys Disassembled Joel Shapiro Sculpture

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, What We Don’t Know About Jasper Johns

From the Editors, The 10 Exhibitions to See in September 2026

Pia Singh, Chicago’s ‘Slacker’ Artists

FrOom the Editors, Smithsonian head quits among sustained Trump pressure

From the Editors, Lucien Smith, artist supporting artists, 1989–2026

From the Editors, Andy Goldsworthy and Jenny Holzer among Praemium Imperiale winners

The Atlantic

Sebastian Smee, The Real Legacy of Lonnie Bunch

Tom Healy, This Was a Good Sculpture

Kelsey Ables and Janay Kingsberry, Why Lonnie Bunch Is Leaving the Smithsonian

The Brooklyn Rail

Annabel Keenan, Miles Greenberg

Susan Harris, Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur

Osman Can Yerebakan, Thomas Houseago: Sculptures

David Whelan, Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50

Marjorie Welish, Pope.L: Certainly An Act: Works on Paper by Pope.L

Cultured

Julie Belcove, At 76, Artist Carroll Dunham Is Starting Over

Sophie Lee and Julia Halperin, Lucien Smith, Downtown Artist Who Funneled Market Success Into Community Projects, Dies at 37

Isabella Bernstein, The 15 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in New York This Month

Financial Times

Jill Krasny, The hot curls of Eunnam Hong

Melanie Gerlis, Monsoon founder Peter Simon on selling his vast art collection

The Guardian

Henry Ward, Why we’re giving £100,000 apiece to a horse box gallery, high-street drop-in and Midlands museum

Philip Oltermann, Reclaiming the streets: the architects clawing back Europe’s car-centric spaces

Jon Henley and Angelique Chrisafis, Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

Eddy Frankel, A constipated baby and a kid that looks like Boris Johnson: why would anyone bother stealing a Renoir?

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Lonnie G. Bunch Has Had Enough

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A New Batch of Art-World Novels

Rhea Nayyar, An Art-Filled Fall in Upstate NY

Eileen G’Sell, For Sophie Lewis, Femininity Is Not the Enemy of Feminism

Robert Choe-Henderson, How Korean Paper Became War Collateral

Anna Lee, Trump-Ousted Kennedy Center Chairman Buys Removed Shapiro Sculpture

Phillip Pyle, Artist Lucien Smith, Fixture of NYC’s Downtown Scene, Dies at 37

John Yau, The Law & Order Writer Who Moonlights as an Artist

Valentina Di Liscia, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Steps Down Amid Trump’s Attacks

Rhea Nayyar, Renoir Artworks Worth Millions Stolen in Five-Minute Heist in France

The New York Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Jason Farago, 25 Global Art Openings Worth Making an Excursion For: Our critic Jason Farago awaits Brancusi at MoMA, a K-pop icon’s collection in San Francisco, Sofia Coppola at the Château de Versailles — and new art centers in New York.

Robin Pogrebin and Graham Bowley, Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution

Celia McGee, The Young Women at the Heart of American Landscape Art

David Allen, A Paradise Where Music and Art Meet Postcard Mountain Views

Zachary Small, Graham Bowley and Robin Pogrebin, Departing Smithsonian Secretary Faced ‘Mounting Pressure Campaign’

Observer

Stephen Garrett, Lance Oppenheim On Venice’s Most Uncomfortable Premiere

Elisa Carollo, Intentionally Smaller and Slower, the 16th Gwangju Biennale Traces a Path of Change

John Scott Lewinski, Why the New York Art World Runs on the European Cultural Calendar

Scott Drevnig, Iris van Herpen Has No Flagship Store, No Diffusion Line and No Plans to Change

Puck

Ingrid Abramovitch, The Craft Merchants of Venice

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from Cagnes-sur-Mer museum, two still missing

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Art in America

Barry Schwabsky, How Jutta Koether Made A Color Her Signature Style

The Art Newspaper

Catherine Hickley and Martin Bailey, Greece rejects Parthenon marbles loan request from Frankfurt due to British Museum involvement, reports say

Gareth Harris, Two Renoir paintings worth €9m stolen from Renoir Museum in South of France

Richard Unwin, Hungary’s new government scraps National Gallery plans

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Argentina court orders return of Nazi-looted Old Master portrait to Jewish dealer’s heir

Gareth Harris, England’s Pitt Rivers Museum announces its largest repatriation of human remains

Anna Brady, Museum acquisitions round-up: an unsettling French mask and a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I

From the Editors, Come to the British Library’s Agatha Christie show—if you dare

Artforum

George Baker, REGRESSIONS AND REVELATIONS

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, ‘The Biggest Art Heist of the 21st Century,’ According to Libbie Mugrabi. Plus, a Seoul Dispatch!

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Did Renoir Actually Suck at Painting?

Vittoria Benzine, $60 Million Modernist Trove Led by Rare Signacs Heads to Auction

Vittoria Benzine, Reggie Burrows Hodges Takes Over L.A. With Three-Venue Homecoming

Verity Babbs, Route 66 at 100: How Artists Have Captured the Mythical Highway

Andrew Russeth, As China Exits the Gwangju Biennale, Taiwan Plows Ahead

Vittoria Benzine, A Tudor Masterpiece Goes Under the Microscope—and Anyone Can Watch

Vittoria Benzine, Philadelphia Rallies to Save Its Dino Museum—and Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Christie’s and Bonhams Hike Buyer’s Fees—and More Industry Intel

Andrew Russeth, Beyoncé Gives $2M to Studio Museum in Harlem—and Other Art World Matters

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, What to Watch in the Market This Fall

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, Eiffel Tower Workers Strike in Outrage After Female Staffers Ordered to Leave Their Posts, Replaced by Men

Hikmat Mohammed, Loewe’s Fall 2026 Collection Inspired by Cosima Von Bonin’s Sea Creatures Lands in Stores

Hikmat Mohammed and Maximilíano Durón, Four Paintings Stolen from France’s Renoir Museum in Predawn Raid

Devorah Lauter, Jenny Holzer and Andy Goldsworthy Win $95,000 Praemium Imperiale Award

Hikmat Mohammed, Chanel Culture Fund Partners with Dib Bangkok on Inaugural Chanel Gateway Commission

Hikmat Mohammed, Activist Group Labels Video Documenting Falling Ceiling Debris at the Kennedy Center ‘Propaganda’

Devorah Lauter, Geles Cabrera, Trailblazing Mexican Sculptor, Dies at 100

Hikmat Mohammed, St Paul’s Cathedral Faces Backlash After Partnering with Fabric, Iconic London Nightclub

Hikmat Mohammed, Issy Wood Picked as National Portrait Gallery’s Inaugural Artist for Contemporary Program

Hikmat Mohammed, Fair Warning to Auction Rare Yves Saint Laurent Mondrian Dress and Several Pieces by John Galliano Despite Controversy over Met Museum Exhibition’s Cancellation

ArtReview

Katie Tobin, Gabriele Stötzer Turning the Trap Around

From the Editors, Andy Goldsworthy and Jenny Holzer among Praemium Imperiale winners

The Atlantic

Sebastian Smee, Misunderstanding Norman Rockwell

The Boston Globe

Angela Charlton, Thieves steal four Renoir paintings from French Riviera museum; two still missing

The Brooklyn Rail

William Corwin, Necessary Miracles: Rothko in Florence

Lee Ann Norman, Fade

Mark Van Proyen, Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory

Natalie Weis, Mona Hatoum: Over, under and in between

Lyle Rexer, Arnaldo Pomodoro: Una Vita

Financial Times

Christina Ohly Evans, Guggenheim director Miren Arzalluz’s guide to Bilbao

The Guardian

Angelique Chrisafis, Artworks stolen from Renoir Museum on French Riviera in latest heist

Veronica Esposito, Skyscrapers and smokestacks: the grittier side of Georgia O’Keeffe

Daniel Culpan, Can breath be art? Liz Larner on sculpting with hair, lashes, leather – and international group exhalation

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, 15 US Museum Shows We Can’t Wait For

Rhea Nayyar, Anna Lee, and Phillip Pyle, 15 Museum Exhibitions to See Across the US This Fall

Aaron Short, Preserving Ernie Barnes’s Legacy in Paint Tubes

Rana Alsoufi, The Artist Residency That Never Was

Khatchig Mouradian, The Pine Trees That Would Not Leave Me

Amalia Uribe Guardiola, In Queens, Immigrant Women Sew a Truer Atlas

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Art Books We’re Reading This Fall

The New York Times

Holland Cotter, Art’s New Season: Retrospectives and Resistance

Jason Farago, 25 Global Art Openings Worth Making an Excursion For

EDITOR’S PICK - Nina Siegal, What to Do With Europe’s ‘Zombie Churches’? These Artists Have Some Ideas.: As the continent’s ties to Christianity fade, churches are being abandoned. But some see a chance to transform them into communal spaces like care centers or venues for the arts.

Julia Jacobs, Ousted Kennedy Center Chairman Buys Dismantled ‘Blue’ Sculpture

Adam Nossiter, Jean-François Leroy, Champion of Photography at Its Rawest, Dies at 69

Michael Kimmelman, There Is Still a Void at Ground Zero. Here’s How We Fill It.

Julia Halperin, A Family History of Emigration and Exile, Told Through Objects

Stephen Treffinger, This San Francisco Artist’s Walls Have Boundary Issues

Sam Lubell, A Japanese Polymath Transforms a Modernist Icon

The New Yorker

Hilton Als, Willem de Kooning’s Excavations of Intimacy

Observer

Paco Barragán, Art Fairs Are Built for a Market That No Longer Exists

Elisa Carollo, Marian Goodman’s Multiples, Inc. Banners to Resurface at New York’s Independent 20th Century

J. Scott Orr, Yoshitomo Nara’s New York Story Can Be Found in its Punk Clubs

Sarah Moroz, Daisy Dixon’s “Depraved” Grapples With the Art of Problematic Artists

The Washington Post

Noemie Bisserbe, Thieves Raid Renoir Museum in Latest French Art Heist

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Today’s Editor’s Pick is Why a New Generation of Collectors Is Chasing 20th-Century Modernism by Jussi Pylkkänen for Artnet. A new generation of collectors is driving renewed demand 20th-century Modernist works, positioning this fall’s major auctions for strong competition and high prices.

Art in America

Catherine G. Wagley, This New Eva Hesse–Inspired Novel Is an Experiment in Form (and Foam)

The Art Newspaper

Martin Bailey, Ten surprising facts about the Bayeux Tapestry

Gareth Harris, ‘Putin didn’t win; art won’: Venice Biennale president defends decision to allow Russia’s participation

Martin Bailey, Long-hidden Van Gogh self-portrait to star in major Paris exhibition

Shana Wu and Lisa Movius, Amid volatile Korean economy, galleries at Frieze Seoul and Kiaf opt for cautious pricing and fresh faces

Hadani Ditmars, Police and firefighters break into gallery after sculpture is mistaken for a person in distress

Louisa Buck, From DIY endeavour to London art world mainstay: Bold Tendencies celebrates 20 years

Caroline Roux, From Dante’s Hell to Zelda: rare fantasy map collection to go on view in Zurich

Artforum

From the Editors, Fall Previews

From the Editors, Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego Facing Financial Strain and Staffer Pushback

From the Editors, Atlanta’s High Museum of Art Will Celebrate Centennial With Over 200 New Acquisitions

From the Editors, Kerstin Brätsch Wins 2027 Zurich Art Prize

From the Editors, Longtime Director Stephan Jost to Depart Art Gallery of Ontario

Artnet

Min Chen, Forget a Galaxy Far, Far Away. The New George Lucas Museum Is Finally Here

Margaret Carrigan, The Fairs, Shows, and Sales That Actually Matter This Fall

Sojeong Kim, The Market’s Up! The Market’s Down! At Frieze Seoul, Galleries Notch Sales in Uncertain Times

Katya Kazakina, The Paradox of Yayoi Kusama’s Final Years—and Other Art World Matters

Sonia Manalili, The Etruscans Made Astonishing Art. Why Aren’t They Better Known?

Vittoria Benzine, How Gloria Steinem Left Her Mark on Art

EDITOR’S PICK - Jussi Pylkkänen, Why a New Generation of Collectors Is Chasing 20th-Century Modernism: Expect this fall’s auction season to reward quality over quantity.

Vittoria Benzine, A New James Turrell Work Just Landed at Miami’s Superblue

Vittoria Benzine, Newly Restituted Kandinsky Poised for $30M Sale

ARTnews

Howard Halle, What Was Pop Art, the 1960s Art Movement that Changed Art History?

Maximilíano Durón, The Lucas Museum Doesn’t Have a Narrative

Tessa Solomon, Chinese Artists Officially Withdraw from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of ‘Taiwan Pavilion’

Brian Boucher, Christie’s and Bonhams Quietly Hike Buyers’ Fees

Brian Boucher, White House Accuses Smithsonian of Discrimination, Threatens To Cut Federal Grants

Hikmat Mohammed, Gloria Steinem’s Life in Art

Alex Greenberger, Lucas Museum CEO Responds to Staff Departures: George Lucas ‘Has Always Been Chief Curator’

Francesca Aton, Denmark’s Largest Known Viking Age Silver Treasure Discovered in Local Garden

Hikmat Mohammed, King Charles, Emmanuel Macron, Andy Burnham Visit the Bayeux Tapestry for a VIP Preview

Maximilíano Durón, Nan Goldin Photographs 30th Anniversary Campaign for Acne Studios

ArtReview

Jenny Wu, Notes from New York: How to Manage an Artist’s Estate

From the Editors, Cuauhtémoc Medina to curate 2027 Bienal de Arte Paiz

From the Editors, Chinese Pavilion to boycott Gwangju Biennale

The Boston Globe

Murray Whyte, In this early Rothko, we glimpse an artist embraced by friendships that helped him learn his own ethereal language

The Brooklyn Rail

Mary Lisette Morris, Revision

Douglas Gautier, Saturation without Sequitur

Greg Pasquarelli, Seeing History in a Post-Context World

Matvey Levenstein, History and Presentness

Cammy Brothers, Graveyard or Goldmine?

Financial Times

Inès Cross, François Halard talks taste

Frieze

From the Editors, Watch Now: Ryan Gander’s ‘The Find’ Captures the Imagination in Seoul

From the Editors, In Pictures: Frieze Seoul 2026

The Guardian

Matthew Cantor, ‘I’m used to doing the impossible’: George Lucas unveils new LA museum – what’s its story?

Jonathan Jones, The must-see Bayeux masterpiece, Colombia’s chronicler and a Manchester odyssey – the week in art

Oliver Giles, Margaret Preston: Australia’s most beloved and contested artist?

Jonathan Jones, The Bayeux tapestry: a stupefying, thrilling, horrifying masterpiece that shakes the earth

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Mildred Howard Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation Award

Rhea Nayyar, ICE Seizes 22,000 Antiquities in Florida

Anna Lee, China Withdraws from Gwangju Biennale in Protest of Taiwan’s Inclusion

Lavinia Lang, In “Whistler,” Ann Patchett Tackles Loss and Art

Taliesin Thomas, 10 Art Shows to See in Upstate New York This September

Valentina Di Liscia, Trump Somehow Mad at Stick Figure

The New York Times

Jason Farago, Through the Hands of Strangers, Missing Iranian Artists Put on a Show in L.A.

Will Heinrich, Krasner & Pollock, Lichtenstein and RM Make Art’s New Season Pop This Fall

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Frieze Seoul, Kiaf and a Market Moving Past FOMO into Maturity

The Washington Post

Mark Jenkins, 10 eclectic art shows that will take you back in time

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Art in America

Andy Battaglia and Emily Watlington, Your Fall Guide: 17 Art World Highlights Not to Miss

The Art Newspaper

Martin Bailey, Rembrandt self-portrait returns to German city 80 years after it was illegally removed

J.S. Marcus, Answering to the AfD? What Germany’s regional elections could mean for arts funding

Gareth Harris, ‘We are united’: King Charles III and President Macron attend private preview of London’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition

Hadani Ditmars, Man discovers Denmark’s largest Viking Age silver hoard while digging a terrace in his garden

Vincent Noce, Paris prosecutors seek trial for Giuliano Ruffini over allegedly forged Old Master paintings

Larry Humber, Leader of the Art Gallery of Ontario will step down after a decade at the helm

Brian Dillon, The Big Review: Frida, The Making of an Icon ★★★½

Artforum

Tyler Dean, Gateway Drag: Tim Curry’s Illicit Gifts to Queer Children

From the Editors, Serpentine Announces First Participants in AI-Centric Art Tech Fellowship

From the Editors, Anonymous Was a Woman Names Winners of 2026 Environmental Grants

From the Editors, Untitled Art, Miami Beach Announces 15th Edition Exhibitors for 2026

From the Editors, Trump Administration Dismantles Beloved Kennedy Center Sculpture

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Kennedy Center Removes Beloved Joel Shapiro Sculpture

Jo Lawson-Tancred, ICE Seizes Thousands of Ancient Artifacts—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, A New James Turrell Work Just Landed at Miami’s Superblue

Vittoria Benzine, Meow Wolf L.A. Unveils Star-Studded Artist List

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Serpentine Taps Four Artists For New Tech-Focused Fellowship

Katya Kazakina, Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Leonardo da Vinci Loan to the Met Signals Big Ambitions

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, King Charles, Emmanuel Macron, Andy Burnham Visit the Bayeux Tapestry for a VIP Preview

Maximilíano Durón, Nan Goldin Photographs 30th Anniversary Campaign for Acne Studios

Tessa Solomon, Politics Is Personal in “Turn the Volume Up!,” a Powerful Show of Protest Art at the Nasher Museum

Leigh Anne Miller, Kerstin Brätsch Wins the $160,000 Zurich Art Prize

Vivienne Chow, Dealers Are Betting on the Future of South Korea Despite Measured First-Day Sales at Frieze and Kiaf

Maximilíano Durón, Mildred Howard Wins $25,000 Artist Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Names Environmental Art Grants, and More: Industry Moves for September 2, 2026

Hikmat Mohammed, Paul Durand-Ruel’s €43 M. Collection of Monet, Picasso, and Renoir Comes to Christie’s During Paris Art Week

Hikmat Mohammed, Daniel Cassady and Sarah Douglas, Recent Key Departures at Phillips Point to a Pivot in Strategy

Francesca Aton, Experimental Sound Artist Ryoji Ikeda Wins 2026 Nam June Paik Prize

Hikmat Mohammed, The Media Reacts to John Galliano’s Canceled Exhibition at the Met Museum

Alex Greenberger, Joel Shapiro Would Have Been ‘Alarmed’ by Removal of Sculpture from Kennedy Center, Family Says

Alex Greenberger, Venice Biennale President Stands by Decision to Host Russian Pavilion: ‘I’d Do It All Over Again’

Andy Battaglia, David Nolan Gallery Moves from Upper East Side to Bigger Space in Tribeca

ArtReview

Adeline Chia, Taring Padi: Action – Nonstop

Mark Rappolt, The Self-Help Gwangju Biennale 2026

The Atlantic

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, The Met’s Other Failure

Kelsey Ables, The White House Wants to Make the Smithsonian a Pariah

The Brooklyn Rail

EDITOR’S PICK - Jason Rosenfeld, Art Historicism and the Remaking of the Present: With the recent return to figuration and ascendance of portraiture in contemporary painting, historical reference has returned as a viable method to convey authenticity and engage with tradition in an unironic manner. Now, artists wade through six hundred years of borrowings, layered on top of each other, like strata in an ever-rising hillside.

Tim Barringer, Historicism’s Modernity: Modernism is History

Craig Dykers, Time Without Time

Amanda Gluibizzi, Prehistoricism

Nile Greenberg, Research as Ornament

Cultured

Johanna Fateman, Post-Banana, Can Maurizio Cattelan Escape His Reputation as a Readymade Rabble-Rouser?

Naomi Rea, Art Fair Season Is Approaching. Here’s How to Get the Most Out of Your Visit.

Ella Martin Gachot, How Painter Sam McKinniss Captured Troye Sivan For Our Latest Artist Cover

Family Style

Adriana Blidaru, Making Space

Frieze

From the Editors, Taro Nasu Awarded the 2026 Frieze Seoul Stand Prize

From the Editors, Pipe Gallery: Winner of the Focus Stand Prize at Frieze Seoul 2026

The Guardian

Mark Brown, Public given rare access as Thomas More painting goes under microscope

Deborah Cole, ‘My work has always been serious’: Maurizio Cattelan on his $6m banana, his gold toilet – and bringing Hitler and a pope to Berlin

Hyperallergic

Rhea Nayyar, Venice Biennale President Defends Russia Inclusion in New Interview

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Geles Cabrera, Helch, and Jay Maisel

Anna Lee, Israel’s Smotrich Calls to Destroy 40 Palestinian Memorials in West Bank

Teju Adisa Farrar, The Missing Colors of Black American Pigment-Making

Emma Cieslik, Critics Slam “Petty” Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture From Kennedy Center

Rhea Nayyar, NYC Exhibition Celebrates Snoopy’s Enduring Influence on Art and Fashion

The Los Angeles Times

Leah Ollman, 16 ambitious art shows to see in and around L.A. this fall

Jesse Bedayn, Kennedy Center disassembles ‘Blue’ sculpture from its grounds

The New York Times

Matt Stevens and Robin Pogrebin, What Is ‘Narrative Art’? The Lucas Museum Finally Shows Us Its Vision.

Zachary Small, The Mysterious and Lonely Final Decade of Yayoi Kusama’s Life

Elizabeth Williamson and Julia Jacobs, Kennedy Center Removes ‘Blue’ Sculpture That Was an Artist’s Gift

Jin Yu Young and Murphy Zhao, China Boycotts a Top Art Festival Over Taiwan Exhibition

Siddhartha Mitter, Chain Saws and Joy: A Sculptor’s Evolution

Observer

Hok-Hang Cheung, Taiwan’s Gallerists Are Rerouting Their Ambitions Away From the Mainland

Elisa Carollo, The Venice Biennale and Central Asia’s Rise in the Global Art World

John Scott Lewinski, As South Korea’s Creative Industries Converge, Fine Art Is Riding the Wave

Kristine Hansen, Where Burning Man Art Ends Up After the Burn

Puck

Marion Maneker, The Art of Corporate Commissions

Dan Duray, When Jerry Met Roberta

The Wall Street Journal

Robert L. Pincus, ‘Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Running Fence at 50 Years’ Review: Commemorating a Shimmering Spectacle

Chavie Lieber, Anna Silman and Kelly Crow, How Anna Wintour’s Quest to Salvage John Galliano’s Legacy Was Thwarted

The Washington Post

Fritz Hahn and Maxine Wallace, America, the beautiful, one gorgeous state flower at a time

Jonathan Edwards, Trump administration threatens to cut off agencies’ ties to Smithsonian

Whitehot

J. Scott Orr, Janette Beckman at Atelier Jolie: The Other Punk Scene Gets its Due in the East Village

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The Art Newspaper

Martin Bailey, A Churchill painting that mysteriously fell into the hands of a Nazi collaborator is on show in London

Angella d’Avignon, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego faces financial and leadership crisis

Gareth Harris, Four artists explore AI’s effect on culture as part of Serpentine’s new art and technology fellowship

EDITOR’S PICK - Anny Shaw, The art world’s billionaire problem is getting worse, research suggests: A new paper links widening wealth inequality to the market’s growing reliance on ultra-rich collectors

Artforum

From the Editors, Supreme Court Green-Lights White House Ballroom Despite Lack of Congressional Approval

From the Editors, Repatriated Kandinsky Masterwork Will Go Up for Auction at Christie’s London

From the Editors, U.K. Prime Minister Retracts Support for Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece

From the Editors, Mark Feary to Curate 2028 Adelaide Biennial

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, The Story Behind One of David Hockney’s Most Beguiling Paintings

Vittoria Benzine, Newly Restituted Kandinsky Poised for $30M Sale

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Serpentine Taps Four Artists For New Tech-Focused Fellowship

Min Chen, Iconic ‘Mondrian Dress’ Heads to Auction—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Decades-Old Feud Reignites Over Painting Hidden Beneath Chagall’s Paris Opera Ceiling

Min Chen, Julien’s Auctions Sets Sights on Abu Dhabi With Blockbuster Memorabilia Sale

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, Serpentine’s Inaugural Fellowship Bridges the Gap Between Art and AI

Brian Boucher, Untitled Art, Miami Beach Names 166 Exhibitors for 2026 Edition

Maximilíano Durón, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham Reverses Call for British Museum to Return Parthenon Marbles

Anne Doran, In the Face of European Colonization, Aboriginal Artists Created Images of Powerful Beings, Study Finds

Alex Greenberger, Art Gallery of Ontario Director Stephan Jost to Depart After a Decade

Andy Battaglia, ICE Unit Says It Seized 22,000 Ancient Artifacts in Florida

Brian Boucher, Christie’s London Offers a Restituted Kandinsky, Long Displayed in a German Museum, for $30 M.

Leigh Anne Miller, Camille Henrot Will Show 12 Dog Sculptures in Central Park This Fall

Devorah Lauter, French Court Faults Deauville City for Removing AP Photograph of Gaza from Exhibition

The Brooklyn Rail

Phong H. Bui, Dear Friends and Readers

Richard Shiff, CHRISTOPHER WOOL

Alex Bacon, LEE UFAN

Amanda Gluibizzi, MALCOLM PEACOCK

Andrew Paul Woolbright, TALA MADANI

Jennifer Stockman & Joachim Pissarro, EMILY RAUH PULITZER

Financial Times

Louis Wise, Beryl Cook takes Bicester – and beyond

Lee Sharrock, Poet Arch Hades: ‘I don’t have to share a space with another human being’

The Guardian

Aaron Mok, Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’

Eddy Frankel, HRH Helch: the graffiti artist who left an indelible mark on high-rise Britain

Alice Fisher, Meet the magical creatures inspired by shamanism, folklore … and an old Ikea bag

From the Editors, ‘She inspired my proposal’: Readers on Yayoi Kusama

Hyperallergic

Matt Stromberg, 15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Fall

Taliesin Thomas, The Artists Paddling 350 Miles Up the Erie Canal

Anna Lee, Minnesota State Fair Removes Anti-Trump Crop Art After Artist Was Harassed

Shahrzad Rasekh, Inside the 3,000-Zine Library in a Texas Living Room

From the Editors, Opportunities in September 2026

Bilphena Decontee Yahwon, How Fannuh Baskets Connect Liberia to the US Lowcountry

The Los Angeles Times

Todd Martens, Meow Wolf L.A. announces the local artists who’ll bring the immersive world to life

The New York Times

Emily LaBarge, The Genius of Yayoi Kusama in Three Works

Graham Bowley, Can a Museum Accept Artifacts With Slim Records? Toledo Has a Plan.

Alex Marshall, Charles to View the Bayeux Tapestry, This Time as King

Elizabeth Williamson and Julia Jacobs, Kennedy Center Begins Removing Outdoor ‘Blue’ Sculpture

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Arthur de Villepin On Bridging Cultures with Villa Haw Par and a New Curatorial Project in Milan

Dan Duray, Tone Hansen Takes the Helm at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet With a Newly Expanded Mandate

Elisa Carollo, The Chaebol Fortunes That Built South Korea’s Art World

Elisa Carollo, The Exhibitions Not to Miss During Seoul Art Week

Elisa Carollo, Seoul’s Paradise City Is an Unexpected Art Destination

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Sarah Douglas, Art in America’s Fall Issue Features Five “Icons,” a Theory of Cringe, and More

Madeleine Seidel, Alexa West Toes the Line Between Dance and Labor

The Art Newspaper

EDITOR’S PICK - Lisa Movius, Gwangju’s city government apologises to China over Taiwan Pavilion naming: Jeonnam Gwangju City has officially reiterated its support for the “One China Policy” after an exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale was named after the the autonomous island of Taiwan

Vincent Noce, Alleged antiquities smuggler’s children convicted of money laundering in Germany

Sarvy Geranpayeh, Online platform connects hundreds of emerging Iranian artists with collectors abroad

Benjamin Sutton, Metropolitan Museum and designer John Galliano cancel planned Costume Institute exhibition amid backlash

Gareth Harris, UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham reverses position on returning Parthenon Marbles to Greece

Joe Ware, London Science Museum’s sponsorship deal with BP ends after almost 25 years

Vivienne Chow, South Korea’s art market correction signals maturity

Jaeyong Park, Korea’s new art market law gets off to a shaky start

Lisa Movius, ‘Death is already woven into our everyday lives’: Sook Jin Jo

Vivienne Chow, ‘Those pieces were simply not meant to be part of my collection’: Mari Hong on avoiding regret

Gareth Harris, A bonanza of Bayeux Tapestry books to accompany the blockbuster British Museum exhibition

Gareth Harris, September Book Bag: from Don McCullin’s powerful Vietnam images to a behind-the-scenes dive into Paula Rego’s studio

Gareth Harris, When Hockney met Betty: new book uncovers mysterious Beverly Hills Housewife in famous Los Angeles painting

Artforum

Rachel Hahn, Against the Grain: Breadwoman’s Benevolent Disruptions

From the Editors, Body Politics: Gabriele Stötzer’s Art Against the State

From the Editors, AI for Modernists

Artnet

Vittoria Benzine, The Met Scraps Its John Galliano Costume Institute Show

Ben Davis, A New Power Ranking of Art Cities—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Could the Bayeux Tapestry Loan Unlock a Parthenon Marbles Deal?

ARTnews

Anne Doran, Baltimore Museum of Art Announces New Acquisitions

Anne Doran, New Discoveries at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis Show Its Use Over Time

Leigh Anne Miller, Otto Muehl Retrospective at Vienna Actionism Museum Courts Controversy in Advance of September Opening

Andy Battaglia, Auction Houses Won’t Sell a Keith Haring Drawing That Faced a Lawsuit

Alex Greenberger, City of Gwangju Attributes Biennale’s Taiwan Pavilion Controversy to ‘Insufficient Communication’

Francesca Aton, Shakira to Shake Up Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza During World Tour

Alex Greenberger, George W. Bush Made a New Series of Paintings to Mark the 25th Anniversary of 9/11

Hok Hang Cheung, Jonathan Crockett, Phillips’ Outgoing Asia Chairman, Discusses the State of Asia’s Art Market

Maximilíano Durón, Collectors Marc Andreessen and Ken Griffin Among Biggest Donors to Midterm Elections

Francesca Aton, Lavinia Fontana Altarpiece Acquired by National Museum in Stockholm

Alex Greenberger, Met Museum Cancels John Galliano Exhibition Amid Controversy over Designer’s Antisemitic Comments

ArtReview

Mark Rappolt, Dissonance and Dissidence at Busan Biennale 2026

From the Editors, Mark Feary will curate the 2028 Adelaide Biennial

BOMB

Eana Kim, Anicka Yi by Eana Kim

From the Editors, Hans Rosenström by Annabel Keenan

Frieze

From the Editors, Yeon Shim Chung’s Top Picks From Frieze Seoul 2026

From the Editors, An Meene’s Top Picks From Frieze Seoul 2026

The Guardian

Jamie Grierson, Prolific UK graffiti artist Helch dies

Jonathan Jones, Ben Eastham and Catherine Slessor, Monet’s Riviera, 90s nostalgia and Bayeux à gogo! The best art and architecture of autumn 2026

Eddy Frankel, ‘I’m not nervous, I’m ready’: Tschabalala Self on racist vandals and her bold striding woman for the Fourth Plinth

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, “Marina” Dares You to Laugh at Technology

Claudia Ross, Jennifer Higgie’s Empathetic Elegy for Richard Dadd

John Yau, Catherine Murphy Has Her Cake and Eats It Too

Rhea Nayyar, What in the Devil Was Peter Thiel Doing at the British Museum?

Anna Lee, John Galliano Withdraws From Met Exhibition After Backlash Over Racist Comments

The New York Times

Robin Pogrebin, Smithsonian to Put Latino Museum in Existing Building It Controls

Catherine Hickley, Kandinsky Work Returned to Jewish Heirs by a German Museum to Be Sold

Joyce Lau, Is Seoul’s Art Week Turning Into South Korea’s Art Month?

Tariro Mzezewa, This French Artist Is the Antithesis of ‘Quiet Luxury’

David Belcher, How Dansaekhwa Has Inspired and Shaped Frieze Seoul

Andrew Russeth, The Style Without a Name That Came to Define Korean Art

Observer

Sarah Moroz, Marseille’s Art-o-rama Lets Galleries Outgrow the Fair That Made Them

Dian Parker, When Tennis’s Greatest Champions Turn a Competitive Eye Toward Art

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, National Gallery refuses to show how a Gaza protest that harmed no painting cost it £7,196

Adam Schrader, FOIA Documents: The National Gallery’s partial refusal on the Picasso protest costs

The Wall Street Journal

Diane Cole, ‘Frederic Church: Global Artist’ Review: A Painter’s Wanderlust

Chavie Lieber, Met Museum Cancels Controversial John Galliano Exhibition and Gala

The Washington Post

Jonathan Edwards, A Smithsonian museum director departs for the Guggenheim

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Hadani Ditmars, Egyptian queen’s 673-diamond necklace stolen from Vienna museum in brazen daytime heist

Artforum

Hana Ostan-Ožbolt-Haas, Cosmic Interiors: Stano Filko’s Manic Ambition on View in Salzburg

Artnet

Min Chen, The Photographer Who Followed David Bowie Around the World

Katya Kazakina, Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Leonardo da Vinci Loan to the Met Signals Big Ambitions

EDITOR’S PICK - Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, What Is the Value of a Museum?: Whitechapel Gallery director Gilane Tawadros has tapped an economist to help rethink the public value of art institutions.

Andrew Russeth, South Korea Beckons! Here Are 10 Essential Art Museums in Seoul

Min Chen and Vittoria Benzine, 8 New York Museum Shows You Need to See This Fall

Vittoria Benzine, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Usonian Home in L.A. Is Falling Into Disrepair

Vittoria Benzine, John Giorno’s Multifarious Legacy Gets a Spotlight in Mexico City

Vittoria Benzine, Will the U.S. State Department Purge More Art? And Other Art World Matters

Margaret Carrigan, Top Execs Depart Phillips—and More Industry Intel

ARTnews

Alex Greenberger, Met Museum Cancels John Galliano Exhibition Amid Controversy over Designer’s Antisemitic Comments

Alex Greenberger, 84 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall

Alex Greenberger and Maximilíano Durón, Pace Gallery Founder Arne Glimcher Criticizes Met Museum Over Planned Galliano Show: Report

Daniel Cassady, Robert Indiana’s Maine Home Is for Sale, Despite Late Artist’s Intentions to Make It an Art Space

Francesca Aton, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Denied Use of Roy Cohn Portrait for New Biography Over Political Concerns

Tessa Solomon, China Pulls Artists from Gwangju Biennale as ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Moves Forward

George Nelson, Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Embroiled in Alleged Bribery Scandal

Daniel Cassady, $4.3 M. Van Cleef & Arpels Necklace Stolen From Vienna Museum

Maximilíano Durón, UK Government Puts Temporary Export Ban on $97.2 M. Rembrandt Painting

Francesca Aton, Chief Executive of Sydney’s Forthcoming $915 M. Cultural Institution Steps Down Amid Ongoing Investigations, 10 Weeks Ahead of Its Opening

Tessa Solomon, Kennedy Center Board Says It Will Delay Adding Trump’s Name to the Center by One Month

The Atlantic

Sebastian Smee, The Limits of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity

Financial Times

Louis Wise, Rugged Americana’s age of innocence

The Guardian

Rafqa Touma and Tom McIlroy, The American painting that sparked an Australian culture war – Full Story podcast

Lorenzo Tondo, Messina mystery: theft of Renaissance art from Sicilian museum leaves investigators baffled

Hyperallergic

Rhea Nayyar, Thieves Snatch $4.6M Diamond Necklace From Viennese Museum

Natasha Seaman, The Belgian Exhibition That Strives to “Decenter” the West

Anna Lee, Demolition of Georgian Architectural Landmark Sparks Outcry

Lia Strasser, What I Got Wrong About Krasner and Pollock

Anna Lee, The Art World Reacts to Yayoi Kusama’s Passing

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The Los Angeles Times

Deborah Vankin, The Broad and Lauren Halsey join forces to bring South L.A. students free art programming

The New York Times

Alex Williams, Roy Slaper, Unlikely ‘Legend’ of Denim, Dies at 54

The New Yorker

Zachary Fine, Matisse’s Ugliest Painting

Observer

Christa Terry, How Tom Gilleon Turned a Genre of Nostalgia Into One of Invention

Elisa Carollo, In Seoul, Pavilion’s Debut, Design Miami’s Return and Frieze’s “Beyond the Canon” Approach

Elisa Carollo, How Collectors Bob and Jane Clark Turned Collecting into Community Building

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “Timeless Mucha, The Magic of Line” at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Daniel Grant, The National Park System’s Lesser-Known Role as Patron of the Arts

Vanity Fair

Nate Freeman, According to the State Department, Kehinde Wiley Is Just the Beginning: More Art Could Be Removed and Sold From Embassies

The Wall Street Journal

From the Editors, Arts Calendar: Happenings for the Week of August 30

Karen Wilkin, ‘An Exquisite Eye: Introducing the Aso O. Tavitian Collection’ Review: The Clark’s New Trove

The Washington Post

Harrison Smith, Sliman Mansour has died. His art became a symbol of Palestinian resilience.

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Art in America

Kelly Presutti, Why Surrealists Turned to Animals to Plumb the Human Psyche

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris, UK government places export bar on £71m Rembrandt portrait

Carlie Porterfield, Art fair Art-o-rama’s winning formula: low fees, young blood, bold ideas

Ben Luke, Comment | Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s major survey in Madrid shows how his art was both stridently political and gently lyrical

Gabriella Angeleti, New documentary chronicles the late Brazilian artist Amélia Toledo’s boundary-pushing work

Elizabeth Fortescue, Chief executive of Sydney’s anticipated Parramatta Powerhouse museum steps down two months before grand opening

Larry Humber, Curveball at the Art Gallery of Ontario as Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Dylan Cease showcases painting skills

Martin Bailey, Pioneering US collector Albert Barnes turned down both of Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Nights’

Artforum

Ela Bittencourt, Unsparing Bleakness, Unbridled Eroticism: Toyen’s Taboo-Breaking Art

Kelly Ma, American Dream: Doug Aitken’s Spectacle of Vibes

From the Editors, Granite Noguchi Sculpture to Be Installed at the New Orleans Museum of Art

From the Editors, Yayoi Kusama, Whose Infinity Rooms Dazzled, Dies at 97

From the Editors, Frieze Abu Dhabi Announces Lineup for Inaugural Show

From the Editors, LACMA Sued Over Extensive Data Breach

Artnet

Katya Kazakina, $97 Million Rembrandt Portrait Slapped With U.K. Export Bar

Sonia Manalili and Margaret Carrigan, Why Artists Keep Turning to Tarot

Min Chen, Landmark Ultraman Archive Comes to Auction—and Other Collectibles News

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Wet Paint in Montauk! Everybody’s at the Ranch, Lucien Smith’s Secret Painting Session, and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

Margaret Carrigan, Sydney Museum CEO Exits Amid Spending Scandal—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, The Forgotten Literary World of Yayoi Kusama

Vittoria Benzine, Long-Unseen Mondrian Heads to Auction as the Artist’s Market Heats Up

ARTnews

EDITOR’S PICK - Devorah Lauter, As Right-Leaning Politicians Attack Cultural Institutions, a Basque Country Museum Director Believes in a Different ‘Vision of the Museum Worth Fighting For’: Nicknamed the “Little Louvre,” a hidden gem of European masterpieces in France’s Basque Country was given a new lease on life last fall.

Gameli Hamelo, Collector and Patron Hasnaine Yavarhoussen Is Determined to Bring Madagascar’s Art Scene to the Rest of the World

Maximilíano Durón, Riverside Art Museum Appoints Vivian Zavataro as Next Executive Director

Daniel Cassady, For 20 Years, Turkish Media Star Vuslat Made Art in Secret. Now She’s on the Biennial Circuit

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Cassady, As New York Prices Artists Out, New Haven Is Drawing Them In: Is New Haven one possible cure for a metastasized New York real estate market?

Anne Doran, Demolition of Tbilisi Arts Complex Sparks Protests

Francesca Aton, Neolithic Figure Astride a Leopard Unearthed in Turkey: ‘Unlike Anything Seen Before’

Daniel Cassady, At Peter Marino’s Foundation, Centuries of Art History Devilishly Collapse into Each Other

Tessa Solomon, Artist Gao Zhen Receives Three-Year Prison Sentence for ‘Slandering China’s Heroes’

Hikmat Mohammed, $1.98 M. Worth of Gold Pieces Stolen From the Treasure of Villena

Francesca Aton, Germany’s 100-Year-Old Merz Academy Declared Insolvent

Sandra Salibian, Claire Denis Is Miu Miu Women’s Tales Latest Iteration’s Director

Maximilíano Durón, MoMA to Stage Major Exhibition on Mid-Century African Modernism, Centered on the Concept of ‘Emancipatory Art’

ArtReview

Philippa Snow, ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’; or, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

From the Editors, Ryoji Ikeda wins 2026 Nam June Paik Prize

From the Editors, Lisa Havilah steps aside as CEO of Powerhouse Parramatta ahead of its opening

The Atlantic

Financial Times

Tom Faber, Ryan Gander: ‘I want things that surprise me. I want better art’

George Parker and Franklin Nelson, Andy Burnham retreats from backing return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece

Frieze

From the Editors, Peter Kahng’s Top Pick From Frieze Seoul 2026

From the Editors, You Kim’s Five Picks from Frieze Seoul 2026

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, A gallery glow up, spooky sculpture and a magical modern – the week in art

Hyperallergic

From the Editors, Hyperallergic Fall 2026 New York Art Guide

Anna Lee, Police Break Into Vancouver Gallery After Confusing Sculpture for Person

Rhea Nayyar, Major Queer Art Auction Features Peaches, Chappell Roan, and Chani Nicholas

Michael Glover, Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press Gets an Exhibition of Its Own

Valentina Di Liscia, Four Native Artists Commissioned for Counterpublic Triennial

Valentina Di Liscia, Yayoi Kusama, Artist of Infinities, Dies at 97

The Los Angeles Times

Emily Tarinelli, Taxidermy sound bath? How an unconventional idea works at the Natural History Museum

The New York Times

Holland Cotter, Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97

Patricia Leigh Brown, 6 Feet Under in Art Coffins That Are Over the Top

Penelope Green, Laura Spector, Who Turned a Loathsome Vine Into Art, Dies at 71

Observer

Elisa Carollo, At 50, Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory Still Says Yes to Artists

Adam Robb, In Sioux City, Disparate Visions of the American West Converge

Elisa Carollo, Cj Hendry, Price Laddering and a New Collecting Model for the Kidulting Economy

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, SVA faculty union weighs unfair labor charge over rewritten contracts

The Wall Street Journal

Brian P. Kelly, Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026): An Artist Who Captured Infinity

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Art in America

Tessa Solomon, Craig Jun Li’s Art of Show-and-Tell

The Art Newspaper

Alex Wang, Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who enthralled people worldwide with her polka dots and mirror rooms, has died aged 97

Melissa Gronlund, Frieze Abu Dhabi: which galleries are taking part in the inaugural fair?

Lisa Movius, Chinese artist Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison for satirical sculptures of Mao Zedong

Lee Cheshire, Founders of alternative art fair Basel Social Club to launch new event in Tokyo

Sophia Kishkovsky, Artist Piers Secunda creates paintings from ashes of Ukrainian buildings bombed by Russia

Graciela Ibáñez, Bolivia’s most visited museum kicks off five-year restoration project

Lauren Stroh, Monumental Noguchi sculpture donated to the New Orleans Museum of Art

Artforum

Guillermo Osorno, The Personal is Pictorial: Nahum B. Zenil’s Queer Auto-Iconography

Dan Beachy-Quick, Angles and Slants: Kazuko Miyamoto’s String Sculpture

From the Editors, Elizabeth Peyton Sued for Copyright Infringement Over Oasis Painting

From the Editors, Unnamed Siblings Convicted in German Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Artifacts

From the Editors, Former Pussy Riot Member Says She Was Recruited to Spy on Artists by the Russian Government

From the Editors, Taiwan Pavilion’s Name Reinstated at Gwangju Biennale

Artnet

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Yayoi Kusama, Era-Defining Artist of Dots, Mirrors, and Infinity, Dies at 97

Vittoria Benzine, Foujita Fever Heads to Hong Kong With Dedicated Sotheby’s Sale

Min Chen, Cj Hendry Takes Over Phillips With Oddball Trading Cards

Andrew Russeth, Frieze Names Abu Dhabi Exhibitors—and Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, From Leonardo to Dutch Still Life: How Dalí Mined Art History

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Frieze Abu Dhabi Lines Up 84 Galleries for Inaugural Edition in November

Atsushi Suzuki and Tessa Solomon, Yayoi Kusama, Avant-Garde Artist Who Pursued Infinity, Has Died at 97

Hikmat Mohammed, Dartmouth’s Hood Museum Taps Whitney Museum Chief Curator Kim Contay to Be Next Director

George Nelson, Hollywood Stars and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Join Ukraine Photo Exhibition as Guest Curators

Tessa Solomon, LACMA Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Data Breach of Employee, Visitor Information

Hikmat Mohammed, The Smithsonian Institution, Andy Warhol Museum Honor Dolly Parton by Sharing Image in Its Collection

Maximilíano Durón, Lindsay Jarvis and Max Werner Form New Partnership, Three LA Museums Examine the Work of Architect Paul Revere Williams, and More: Industry Moves for August 26, 2026

EDITOR’S PICK - Payal Uttam, What Happens to Seoul’s Art Market After the Hype?: South Korea posted growth of 6 percent in 2025, compared to the global art market’s 4 percent of growth.

Tessa Solomon, Samia Halaby Remembers Sliman Mansour: ‘A Giant in the History of Art’

Hikmat Mohammed, Falling Finances Follows Trump’s Takeover of the Kennedy Center: Report

Francesca Aton, Historic Sulfur Emissions Likely Damaged Murujuga Rock Art, New Study Finds

Hikmat Mohammed, A GoFundMe Campaign Has Been Launched to Preserve Marijke De Roover’s Work

Francesca Aton, Federal Judge Halts Sale of Titanic Artifacts

Tessa Solomon, Gwangju Biennale Restores ‘Taiwan Pavilion’ Amid Diplomatic Crisis and Censorship Claims

ArtReview

From the Editors, Yayoi Kusama: To Infinity and Beyond!

Sam Jacob, The Secret Lives of Objects

From the Editors, Yayoi Kusama, blockbuster artist, 1929–2026

The Atlantic

Sebastian Smee, The Painter Who Shaped Rothko

Financial Times

Yana Peel, ‘Cool Britannia’ is back — but it needs patrons

Jaeyong Park, Hyeyoung Cho, queen of Korean craft

Jackie Wullschläger, Yayoi Kusama, pioneering Japanese artist, 1929-2026

Frieze

From the Editors, Minjae Kim – ‘The Opposite of Interior Design’

The Guardian

Christopher Masters, Yayoi Kusama obituary

Philip Oltermann, Bronze age treasure stolen in four-minute Spanish museum heist

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, ‘I fight pain and fear with art’: how Yayoi Kusama blazed a trail for neurodivergent artists

Jonathan Jones, Yayoi Kusama’s psychedelic art was at its best when taken in high doses

Gabrielle Schwarz, ‘The technique was revolutionary’: Ha Chong-Hyun, the 91-year-old South Korean artist who turned painting inside out

Hyperallergic

Valentina Di Liscia, Yayoi Kusama, Artist of Infinities, Dies at 97

Anna Lee, Artist Elizabeth Peyton Sued Over Painting of Oasis Brothers

Rhea Nayyar, Ex-Pussy Riot Member Says She Was Recruited by Russia to Spy on Artists

Phillip Pyle, Major Exhibition of Pompeii Treasures Will Make Its US Debut

Nageen Shaikh, Can We Stop Calling South Asian Painting “Miniature”?

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Marijke De Roover, Sliman Mansour, and Fabrizio Plessi

Eliana Perozo, Artist’s Device Slows Down Citi Bikes in Less Affordable Neighborhoods

The Los Angeles Times

Associated Press, Yayoi Kusama, who splashed polka dots across the art world, dies at 97

The New York Times

Holland Cotter, Yayoi Kusama, Pop Artist Who Expanded and Endured, Dies at 97

Blake Gopnik, Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon

Alex Marshall, Yayoi Kusama: A Life in Pictures

Arthur Lubow, Lee Friedlander Is Funny. Seriously.

Michael Paulson, Nazi Photos Arrived at a Holocaust Museum. Now the Story Is a Broadway Play.

Observer

Elisa Carollo, Yayoi Kusama, the Avant-Garde Japanese Artist Who Became a Global Cultural Icon, Dies at 97

Maika Pollack, Yayoi Kusama, the World’s Most Photographed Recluse

Dan Duray, David Norr Says He Measures Artists’ Careers in Decades, Not Market Cycles

Elisa Carollo, Portland’s Homegrown Triennial Returns With Outside Curation and Hyper-Local Soul

Elisa Carollo, Reid Walker On the Infrastructure Gap Holding Back Native American Art

Christa Terry, Observer’s 2026 September Art Fair Calendar

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Yayoi Kusama, artist known for her obsessive use of polka dots, dies at 97

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, Contemporary Artist Yayoi Kusama Dies at 97

Karen Wilkin, A Refreshed Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon

The Washington Post

Juno Carmel, Yayoi Kusama, whose art evoked hallucinatory wonder, dies at 97

EDITOR’S PICK - Philip Kennicott, Removal of a ‘woke’ painting signals a new line of attack on artists: A State Department attempt to sell an innocuous painting by Kehinde Wiley, painter of a famous Obama portrait and a difficult artist to defend, is the loudest of dog whistles.

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Lisa Movius, Gwangju Biennale permits Taiwan Pavilion name after row

Benjamin Sutton, Trump officials take down, explore sale of Kehinde Wiley painting commissioned for US embassy

From the Editors, When Dolly met Andy: a snapshot of the country music legend’s impact on artists

Zian Chen, How a new generation of Indigenous artists is redefining Taiwan’s contemporary art scene

Artforum

Arthur Marie, Arthur Marie on British Thrillers and Disappearing in America

From the Editors, 111 Works from Canada’s Federal Indigenous Art Collection Remain Missing

From the Editors, Russian Drone Strike Causes A Fire At The Kherson Regional Art Museum In Ukraine

From the Editors, Chinese Court Sentences Artist Gao Zhen to Three Years In Prison For Satirical Mao Sculptures

From the Editors, US State Department Looks to Sell “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting

Artnet

Ben Davis, An Art-Statesman’s Heel Turn—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Elizabeth Peyton Sued Over Alleged Copyright Infringement of Oasis Photograph

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Gwangju Biennale Reinstates Taiwan Pavilion

Vittoria Benzine, Model in Kwame Brathwaite Photo Identified After 54 Years

Min Chen, A New Twist for Smithsonian’s Latino Museum—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Hikmat Mohammed, A £20 M. Mondrian Painting is the Highlight of Christie’s Frieze Week Evening Sale in October

Maximilíano Durón, Anne Imhof to Debut New Ballet-Inspired Performance at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun Contemporary

Brian Boucher, Two Convicted in Hamburg Court of Selling Looted Egyptian Antiquities

Devorah Lauter, Photographer Sues Elizabeth Peyton Over Painting Using His Photo of Oasis Band Members

Brian Boucher, Trump Threatens to Demolish Kennedy Center if He Can’t Close It for Renovations

EDITOR’S PICK - Daniel Cassady, Larry Gagosian Isn’t Losing Much Sleep Over the Great Wealth Transfer: Because a trillion dollars of art is only worth a trillion dollars if somebody is willing to pay for it.

Hikmat Mohammed, Russia’s FSB Agents Recruited Former Pussy Riot Member to Spy on Artists

Tessa Solomon, Sliman Mansour, Towering Painter of Palestinian Perseverance, Has Died at 79

Francesca Aton, Fabrizio Plessi, Pioneering Italian Video Artist and Experimenter, Dies at 86

Hikmat Mohammed, Trump Administration Weighs Sale of Kehinde Wiley Painting in Larger Shift Away from ‘Globalist and Woke Ideologies’

ArtReview

Adeline Chia, Oototol’s Adult Play

From the Editors, Taiwan name restored to Gwangju Biennale pavilion

Financial Times

Kristina Foster, The postwar Korean photographer who captured the style and optimism of Seoul

Frieze

From the Editors, Must-See Museum Exhibitions in Seoul During Frieze Week 2026

Sasha Frere-Jones, JJJJJerome Ellis’s Music for Opening Time

Amrita Dhallu and Lubna Chowdhary, Lubna Chowdhary and the Embodiment of Ornament

Cassie Packard, Bringing the Cosmos Down to Earth

Wong Binghao (Bing), Jaeyong Park, Sejin Park and Andy St. Louis, Four Galleries Shaping Seoul

The Guardian

Oliver Giles, ‘The whole world is becoming rightwing and anti-gay’: William Yang on 60 years of capturing LGBTQ+ life

Danny Vincent, Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’

Catherine Slessor, Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks

Hyperallergic

Eliana Perozo, Artist’s Device Slows Down Citi Bikes in Less Affordable Neighborhoods

Anna Lee, Famed “Portrait of Omai” Will Go on View at LA’s Getty Museum

Rhea Nayyar, US State Department Takes Down “Woke” Kehinde Wiley Painting

Anna Lee, Chinese Artist Gao Zhen Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Mao Sculptures

Thea Quiray Tagle, An Ethos of “By Us, for Us” at the Santa Fe Indian Market

Dan Schindel, Barbara Hammer Through Her Own Lens

The New York Times

Jori Finkel, How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles

Alissa J. Rubin, Ancient Lebanese Treasures Take a Journey From Modern-Day Conflict

Marc Davis, Judge Says Sale of Titanic Artifacts Cannot Go Forward for Now

Observer

Scott Drevnig, Ali Banisadr On Turning the Buffalo AKG’s Wilmers Building Into a World of His Own

Fred Voon, The Artist Whose Paintings Helped Establish the World’s First National Park

Elisa Carollo, Tiny But Mighty, Aspen Has Become the Art World’s Most Exclusive Summer Retreat

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Wolf Kahn Foundation opens New York archive ahead of 2027 centennial

Adam Schrader, For-profit experience museums are piling up in court as WNDR shuts two locations

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Gareth Harris, Ruth Mackenzie to reportedly oversee museums, libraries and relationship with Arts Council England for UK culture ministry

Wendyrosie Scott, Art centre launches in Durham, UK with light-themed works by Tracey Emin, Dan Flavin

From the Editors, Somebody to Love at the V&A as Freddie Mercury's costumes going on view

Sophia Kishkovsky, Former Pussy Riot member says she was recruited by Russian security service to spy on dissident artists

Artforum

Alex Bennett, Dream Apartment: Nancy Lupo’s Real Estate Fantasies

From the Editors, Details Of Allegations Against Suspended MuCEM President Revealed

From the Editors, Europol Warns of Increasingly Violent Museum Thefts

From the Editors, FBI Returns 48 Ancient Objects to Egypt in Repatriation Ceremony

From the Editors, Smithsonian’s Prospective Plans for American Latino Museum Could Circumvent Congressional Approval

From the Editors, Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art to Open in Georgia

From the Editors, Wolf Kahn Foundation Has A New Space In Manhattan

Artnet

John Chiaverina, Feats of Strength! At MoMA, Brooklyn’s Pageant Space Hosts Performance Marathon

Cristina Ruiz, ‘We’ve Reached a Tipping Point’: Inside the Labor Unrest Gripping U.K. Museums

ARTnews

Ho Won Kim, Claudia Pagès Rabal Plays in the Ruins of Settler Colonial Time

Devorah Lauter, Estonian Artists Donate Artworks for Auction Following $800,000 Bank Scam

Brian Boucher, FBI Hands Over 48 Illegally Trafficked Artifacts to Egypt After Art Crimes Team Investigation

Francesca Aton, Eight Years After Its Theft, Picasso Etching Discovered Hanging in Milwaukee Apartment

Emily Watlington, Move Over Midcentury Modern: We Want the Wiener Werkstätte

George Nelson, Europol Warns Museum Heists across Europe are Becoming More Violent, “Hand of God” Soccer Ball Sells, and More: Morning Links for August 24, 2026

Hikmat Mohammed, Russian Strike Causes Fire at Ukraine’s Kherson Regional Art Museum

Hikmat Mohammed, US Supreme Court Allows Trump’s Ballroom to Move Forward

Francesca Aton, Two Years After Internal Audit, 111 Artworks Remain Missing from Canada’s Indigenous Art Centre Collection

George Nelson, Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ Soccer Ball Sells for $3.3 M., Well Below $10 M. Estimate

ArtReview

From the Editors, Helsinki Biennial 2027 announces theme and artists

From the Editors, Ryan Presley wins 2026 Telstra NATSIAA

Emily May, Lina Lapelytė: Time for Jenga

Financial Times

Nick Foulkes, Hanneli Rupert, the Richemont scion building a Davos for craft

Frieze

Beniamino Foschini, Must-See: Dana Schutz Turns Celebration into a Warning

Galerie

Nadja Sayej, 5 Essential Facts About Louise Bourgeois

Rena Gross, SFMOMA Ready for First Fashion Exhibit in Over 40 Years with Louise Bourgeois, Dior Encounter

The Guardian

Danny Vincent, Artist known for sculptures of Mao Zedong jailed for slandering ‘heroes and martyrs’

Catherine Slessor, Climate-saving wonder – or €240m vanity bauble that ages like milk? The rocks set to hit Rotterdam docks

Nadia Khomami, Freddie Mercury’s ‘splendid things’ to go on display at V&A

Charlotte Higgins, The ear witness: Turner-winner Lawrence Abu Hamdan and his ‘sound evidence’ exposés of human rights abuses

Hyperallergic

Anna Lee, Sliman Mansour, Painter of Palestinian Hope and Humanity, Dies at 79

Lauren Moya Ford, Maria Martins Was More Than Just Duchamp’s Lover

Amy Levine-Kennedy, How AIDS Activists Turned Graphic Design Into a Weapon

Anna Lee, NYC Arts Nonprofits Benefit from Mamdani’s $8.4 Million in Grants

The New York Times

Zachary Small, Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley

Observer

Nick Hilden, From the Old West to the Alien: Where to See the Best Art in Denver

Xinyi Ye, Photographer Steven Seidenberg On Capturing Temporality and Decay

Daniel Grant, New Collectors Seeking Old Stories About America Are Reshaping the Market for Western Art

Elisa Carollo, For 10 Years, Desert X Has Let the Rift Valley Landscape Do the Curating

EDITOR’S PICK - Elisa Carollo, Collector Amanda Precourt Skipped the Vanity Museum to Give Denver a Community Art Space: "I feel like so many people in the art world talk about the financial value of the art, and I’m like, no. What about the emotional value? What about the social value? What about the cultural value?"

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Chinese artist Gao Zhen sentenced to 3 years over works depicting Mao

Adam Schrader, Art Institute of Chicago custodians lose museum jobs as outsourcing takes effect

The Wall Street Journal

Willard Spiegelman, ‘Friends Who Came to See Me: Drawings From John Ashbery’s Collection’ Review: Picturing a Poet’s Circle

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EDITOR’S PICK - Anna Brady, When galleries go bust, artists and collectors can struggle to recover their works—here, legal experts offer advice: Without proper written agreements, consigners sometimes find themselves in a protracted and costly process

From the Editors, AMTD appoints Benjamin Sutton as Global Editor-in-Chief of The Art Newspaper

Elena Goukassian, Smithsonian races to finalise site for national Latino museum

Hadani Ditmars, More than 100 works from Canada’s federal collection of Indigenous art are ‘unaccounted for’

Artforum

Mateus Nunes, Chromatic Relations: Peter Bradley Takes a Chance on Color

Madeleine Cravens, Pleasantries from the Potato Museum

From the Editors, Mariam Elnozahy Appointed As Curator Of The 2027 Ulaanbaatar Biennale

From the Editors, MoMA PS1 Will Open New Café, Chef DeVonn Francis’s Symone, This October

From the Editors, Armory Show to Inaugurate Two Museum Acquisition Prizes at 2026 Edition

From the Editors, Nonprofit Blank Forms To Move Into A New Space In SoHo This Fall

Artnet

Simon De Pury, Simon de Pury: Sometimes the Art World Gets It Wrong

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Could Brighton Become the New Margate? And Other Art World Matters

Min Chen, Why Louis Comfort Tiffany Still Dazzles Collectors

Nolan Simon, Marcel Duchamp in Full: Join Painter Nolan Simon on a Tour of MoMA’s Sprawling Show

Jo Lawson-Tancred, V&A Workers Vote to Strike Over Pay, Heat—and More Industry Intel

Vittoria Benzine, Cult-Fave Art Space Blank Forms Is Getting a New Home in SoHo

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, Marseille Museum President Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Putting Institution ‘At Risk’: Report

Brian Boucher, An Obscure Canadian Agency Helped Convict Norval Morrisseau Forgers—and Is Finally Getting Its Due

Andy Battaglia, Matthew Barney on His Latest Sculpture, Remote on a Colorado Ranch

Tessa Solomon, Emergency Appeal Asks Federal Court to Keep Trump’s Name Off Kennedy Center

Brian Boucher, The Smithsonian May Put its Latino Museum in a Building it Already Owns, Riling Conservatives

Leigh Anne Miller, Rediscovered Portrait by Baroque Master Bernini Will Be On View in Vienna this December

ArtReview

Yuwen Jiang, ‘Youth Palace’: Who Gets to Shape the Young?

Martin Herbert, Franco Vaccari: Reverie Against Ruin

Financial Times

Enuma Okoro, On the road back to routine

Jackie Wullschläger, What makes the most expensive paintings so expensive?

Frieze

From the Editors, What to See Across the UK This Summer

Vivienne Chow, Po Po: Reassessing the Language of Isolation in ‘Spotlight’

The Guardian

Tim Jonze, ‘I didn’t miss a thing’: How Nick Haymes photographed his sons’ entire lives from verrucas to homemade hamster coffin

Arusa Qureshi, Bebe Cave: Swoon review – dazzling portrait of marginalised muses and the male gaze

Hyperallergic

Paddy Johnson, Art Problems: How Do I Get the Guggenheim Fellowship?

Daniela Mayer, At This Year’s Rencontres d’Arles, Photography Rethinks Its Centers

Seph Rodney, Miles Greenberg Rehearses Myths for the Future

Phillip Pyle, Maya Lin to Build Otherworldly “Floating Landscape” at UT Austin

Emma Cieslik, Artists Commit to the Bit at This Year’s Vulva Gala

Lakshmi Rivera Amin, A View From the Easel

The Los Angeles Times

Isa Farfan, An exhibition created with Dolores Huerta traces U.S. deportation history

The New York Times

Michael Kimmelman, Behind the Mysterious Symbols Spray-Painted on Our Streets

Robin Pogrebin, Smithsonian Plan for Latino Museum Would Avoid Vote in Congress

The New Yorker

Julian Lucas, Is the Smithsonian Really Trying to Destroy America?

Observer

Christa Terry, The Best Jackson Hole Art Galleries

Elisa Carollo, How Venice and New Media Art Are Making the White Cube Increasingly Obsolete

Elisa Carollo, FEMSA Has Spent 50 Years Building a More Complete Record of Latin American Art

Dan Duray, One Fine Show: “The Renaissance Engraver at Work” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

Elisa Carollo, The Icy Gays Built a Collection By Cultivating Relationships—and Ignoring Market Hype

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, New art fair for women opens in DC with all sales going to artists

Adam Schrader, Chinese court sets August 25 verdict for jailed artist Gao Zhen

Adam Schrader, Russian drone strike burns wing of Kherson Art Museum

Adam Schrader, WNDR Museum is closing both of its U.S. locations

Adam Schrader, FBI returns 48 ancient artifacts to Egypt at Los Angeles ceremony

Adam Schrader, NYC billed itself for 161 summonses at cultural institutions since 2023

Adam Schrader, Toledo Museum of Art worker says his union support got him fired

The Wall Street Journal

Dominic Green, ‘Capturing a Queen: The Image of Anne Boleyn’ Review: A Shifting Royal Portrait

Brian P. Kelly, ‘Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now’ Review: Overinflated Overview

Edward Rothstein, ‘Depraved’ Review: The Shock of the New and the Very, Very Old

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Andy Battaglia, After a Much-Maligned MoMA Retrospective, Björk’s Hometown Museum Gives Her a Second Chance

The Art Newspaper

Martin Bailey, A century ago, Tate borrowed five Van Goghs to inaugurate its new ‘modern foreign’ galleries

Melissa Gronlund, Riyadh’s JAX cultural district expands with Lift gallery arrival

Allison C. Meier, ‘Race against time’ to rescue Alabama Civil Rights landmark

Bendor Grosvenor, Comment | I’m trying my hand at writing an art historical novel—it is the best training in looking I’ve ever set myself

Amrita Singh, New documentary focuses on traditional crafts around the world and the pressures facing artisans

Carlie Porterfield, The Armory Show will launch two museum acquisition prizes at upcoming fair

Artforum

Matthew Linde, Marc Jacobs and the Power of Style, With Matthew Linde

Allyn Aglaïa, Exercises in Immortality: Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Sweet Revenge”

Mateus Nunes, Chromatic Relations: Peter Bradley Takes a Chance on Color

From the Editors, French Heat Wave Fries Flowers at Monet Gardens in Giverny

From the Editors, National Gallery of Art Adds a Slew of New Artists to Its Collection

From the Editors, Fake Webpage Takes Credit for Jordan Casteel’s Work

From the Editors, Speed Art Museum Repatriates 24 Artifacts to Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Artnet

Nolan Simon, Marcel Duchamp in Full: Join Painter Nolan Simon on a Tour of MoMA’s Sprawling Show

Jo Lawson-Tancred, The Other Anguissolas: Four Forgotten Renaissance Women Painters Take the Spotlight

Andrew Russeth, MoMA PS1 Gets New Cafe, Neue Galerie’s to Reopen—and Other Art World Matters

Sonia Manalili and Min Chen, Welcome to the World of Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez

Vittoria Benzine, The Bill Blass Archive Has Finally Come to Market

Andrew Russeth, Jordan Wolfson Is Opening a Major Show at Gagosian. He Does Not Want to Talk About It

Vittoria Benzine, Cult-Fave Art Space Blank Forms Is Getting a New Home in SoHo

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Hunting the Marina Abramović at the Brand-New Balloon Museum—and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

ARTnews

Tessa Solomon, After Leadership Shakeup, Telfair Museums Names Caitlín Doherty as Next Director

Brian Boucher, Visitors to the Walker Art Center Encounter Olalekan Jeyifous’s Digital Artwork and Wrongly Brand It ‘AI Slop’

Daniel Cassady, ‘Amateur Artist’ Charged in $80K Theft From Minneapolis Painter’s Studio

Andy Battaglia, Gagosian to Show New Jordan Wolfson Works at His First Show With the Gallery in New York

Vivienne Chow, Taiwan Calls Renaming of National Pavilion at Gwangju Biennale ‘Political Censorship’

Maximilíano Durón, MoMA PS1’s Newest Restaurant Will Be Symone, a French African Cafe by DeVonn Francis

Maximilíano Durón, Armory Show Announces Two Museum Acquisition Prizes, Launching at September Fair

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, Franco Vaccari: Reverie Against Ruin

From the Editors, Gwangju Biennale accused of censoring pavilion title

From the Editors, Mariam Elnozahy to curate 2nd Ulaanbaatar Biennale

Frieze

From the Editors, Applications for Frieze New York 2027 Are Now Open

Natalie Haddad, Enrico David’s Spectral Figures Are Hard to Forget

Laura Robertson, Rafael Pérez Evans Confronts Britain’s Care Crisis

The Guardian

Jonathan Jones, Kapoor’s blockbusting blobs, terrible Tudors and Emin’s proteges – the week in art

Veronica Esposito, ‘She had this divine calling’: the incredible and transporting art of Minnie Evans

Mark Brown, See the Light: Tracey Emin and Steve McQueen illuminate Durham gallery’s revival

Dee Jefferson, Dozens of ‘dangerous’ artworks are buried under dirt in Sydney, and Heap visitors will be asked to dig deep

Hyperallergic

EDITOR’S PICK - Hrag Vartanian and Aruna D’Souza, National Pavilions We Loved at the Venice Biennale: As the punishing heat waves of this summer taper off, this might be the perfect time to visit the international exhibition.

Anne Lee, Six Epic Artworks Inspired by “The Odyssey”

Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter: Rina Banerjee

Rhea Nayyar, Heatwaves in France Damage Beloved Flowers at Monet’s Gardens

Valentina Di Liscia, Wolf Kahn Foundation Opens New Space in NYC

The New York Times

Leila Sheridan, Can She Translate a Big New York Sports Moment Into a Poster?

Observer

Sarah Moroz, Catherine Opie’s Norwegian Landscapes Are Portraits in Disguise

Candace Bushnell, My Unsentimental Education: Cupid Has Flown the Co-Op (The End of Love in Manhattan)

Abigail Bassett, Meet Herbert Wertheim, the Billionaire Who Paid $40M for Ferrari’s First EV

Dan Duray, The Founding Director of Mathaf Returns to Doha for Art Basel Qatar’s Second Edition

Elisa Carollo, Thomas Houseago Makes Ancient Objects Speak to Our Violent Present

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Martin Bailey, Newly discovered Bernini painting to be unveiled at Vienna museum

Elizabeth Fortescue, Sydney’s A$915m Powerhouse Parramatta museum announces opening date and plans for ambitious space-themed exhibition

Gareth Harris, Collector couple to fund art history and AI fellowship at London’s Birkbeck

Mercedes Ezquiaga, Colombia earthquake damaged 40 protected sites and dozens more cultural assets, report finds

Edward Akrout, Comment | Kyiv must not let bureaucracy destroy the culture that Russian drones have already damaged

Elena Goukassian, US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries

Artforum

From the Editors, Rijksmuseum Receives Book of Drawings Made By Rombout van Uylenburgh

From the Editors, Judge Approves Trump Administration’s Paint Tests On Eisenhower Building

From the Editors, Alison Jacques Gallery Faces Lawsuit Over Canceled Sale Of Monica Sjöö Works

From the Editors, Former Owner of Frank Lloyd Wright Skyscraper Sues Media for Defamation

Artnet

Margaret Carrigan, ‘I Believe in the Power of Anachronism’: Alison Gingeras on Bringing Contemporary Art to an Antiquities Museum

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Monet’s Giverny Gardens Wither in Heatwave—and Other Art World Matters

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Gwangju Biennale Organizers Hit Back Against Political Censorship Claims

Vittoria Benzine, The Surrealist Couple History Forgot Is Finally Getting Its Due

Caroline Goldstein, Maya Lin Plans First Texas Piece—and Other Art World Matters

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón, Armory Shows Announces Two Museum Acquisition Prizes, Launching at September Fair

Brian Boucher, How Asad Raza Makes a Show: By Creating Public Art for New York Rats

Devorah Lauter, Crushing Heat Waves in France Threaten Monet’s Gardens in Giverny

Brian Boucher, Artists, Collectors, Dealers Accuse San Francisco Dealer Jonathan Carver Moore of Nonpayment

Devorah Lauter, Sandy Lerner Cat-Themed Art Collection is Out of the Bag

Leigh Anne Miller, Speed Art Museum in Kentucky Is Repatriating 24 Objects to Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes

Maximilíano Durón, Bruce Museum Names New Chief Curator, Yusaku Maezawa’s Art-Filled $350 M. Yacht, and More: Industry Moves for August 19, 2026

Daniel Cassady, Christie’s and Sotheby’s Are Duking It Out to Secure Eccentric Collector Herbert Lust’s $60 M. Art Holdings

Daniel Cassady, Fakes Proliferate as South Asian Art Market Booms, Dealers Warn

Brian Boucher, MIT Study Finds that AI-Generated Images Often Can’t Be Traced Back to Their Sources

Maximilíano Durón, Marfa’s Chinati Foundation Plans Major Restoration of Artillery Sheds, Home to Donald Judd’s Iconic Aluminum Works

ArtReview

Martin Herbert, Franco Vaccari: Reverie Against Ruin

Jessica Lanay, The Interview: Nicholas Goodly

Financial Times

EDITOR’S PICK - Victoria Woodcock, How to start an art collection: Begin with your gut . . .  and other advice from the experts

James Cahill, David Hockney’s life-defining friendship — and the art it inspired

Frieze

Gee Wesley, Masks and Misdirection: The Trickster Tendencies of Arnold J. Kemp

Ann Mbuti, Shamiran Istifan Lets Her Work Speak for Itself

The Guardian

Caroline Davies, ‘All the watering places are crammed with hot people’: on holiday with Dickens

Larry Ryan, Ref, I barely brushed him! The artist who’s painted all of Roy Keane’s red cards

Hyperallergic

Anna Lee, Speed Art Museum Returns 24 Native Artifacts to Oklahoma Tribes

Lisa Yin Zhang, Remembering Bou Meng, Mary Heilmann, and Kumantjayi (Walala) Tjapaltjarri

Tamar Boyadjian, Haroutiun Galentz’s True Colors

Valentina Di Liscia, Angie Nixon, Champion of Black Art and Culture, Wins Florida Senate Primary in Upset

Rhea Nayyar, MIT Students Can Now Borrow Works by Jennie C. Jones and Nayland Blake

The Los Angeles Times

Sharon Mizota, Imagined by Iranians amid war, made by artists in L.A.: How a powerful show was born

The New York Times

Wendy Moonan, Show of Houses by Dutch Modernist Architect Shines a Light on Gem in U.S.

Will Hienrich, From India, a God of Your Choice, to Display at Home

Observer

Amir Berbic, The Long View: What Qatar Can Teach Us About Investing in Culture

Elise Morton, Shezad Dawood’s “Skin of Dreams” Looks Forward as Well as Back

Lucas Gómez-Doyle, At MCA Chicago, Kenzi Shiokava Gets His Long-Awaited Solo Debut

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Met union accuses museum of stalling arbitration over 110 challenged workers

Adam Schrader, Artist who worked as Austin lifeguard cleared by EEOC to sue the city

The Washington Post

Sydney Page, First jellyfish museum in the United States opens in Florida

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Terry Nguyen, The Mythic, Mutable Worlds of Elizabeth Glaessner

The Art Newspaper

Gameli Hamelo, Artist-led space in the Democratic Republic of the Congo launches ‘urgent call’ for funding

Hannah Sage Kay, Donald Judd’s retrofitted Artillery Sheds in Texas to undergo extensive restoration work

Anny Shaw, A guide to artist agents and consultancies

Helen Stoilas, Online art competition raises millions for charity—and many questions

Artforum

Barry Schwabsky, William Anastasi Finds Beauty in What Isn’t There

Bradford Nordeen, Witch World: Queer Occultism Blooms in the Desert

From the Editors, Repatriated Skull To Be Displayed in Community Museum in Oaxaca

From the Editors, New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs Announces Two New Leadership Appointments

From the Editors, The Oldest Existing Fragment of ‘The Odyssey’ is on Display at the Met

Artnet

Gabi Vidal-Irizarry, Hunting the Marina Abramović at the Brand-New Balloon Museum—and More Juicy Art-World Gossip

Caroline Goldstein, Maya Lin Plans First Texas Piece—and Other Art World Matters

Vittoria Benzine, Rare 300-Year-Old Book by Forgotten Dutch Master Resurfaces

Jo Lawson-Tancred, Auction Houses’ Collector Car Sales Rev Up, Led by a $43M Shelby

ARTnews

Devorah Lauter, Anna Weyant Captures Marc Jacobs in Painting on Cover of ‘Vanity Fair’

Brian Boucher, Prosecutor Opens War Crimes Investigation For Illegal Archaeological Dig in Occupied Crimea, With Artifacts Turned Over to the Hermitage

Tessa Solomon, Mafia Involvement Feared in Heist of Renaissance Paintings in Sicily

Andy Battaglia, Rijksmuseum Receives Rare Book of Drawings from the 17th Century

Alex Greenberger, How a 31-Year-Old New York Dealer Got His Artists into the Whitney Biennial and the Venice Biennale

ArtReview

Marcus Verhagen, Hurvin Anderson’s Scattered Dreams

Nirmala Devi, ‘The Devil’s Grin: Book One’ by Alex Graham, Reviewed

From the Editors, Brett Littman to helm MCA San Diego

Financial Times

Cyrus Naji, South Asian art’s biggest problem? Fakes

Frieze

Lulu MacDonald, The Year I Almost Gave Up Being An Artist

From the Editors, Gothic Shoes and Divine Lovers – Extraordinary Objects at Frieze Masters 2026

The Boston Globe

Daisy Levine, The answer to the art museums’ crisis is … AI?

Cultured

Sam Falb, Rivals, Colleagues, or Insurance Fraudsters? These Art World Twins Are Breaking Their Silence

Sarah Cascone, Rosa Elena Curruchich Made Paintings Small Enough to Smuggle. Now, They’re Seeing the Light.

Galerie

Rena Gross, A 50-Year Collection of Hiroshige Prints Is Heading to Christie’s

Nadja Sayej, 5 Essential Facts About Yayoi Kusama

Alexandria Sillo, Earliest Known Fragment of Homer’s Odyssey Is On View at The Met

Lucy Rees, Ross Bleckner Opens Two Must-See Exhibitions in the Hamptons

The Guardian

Caroline Davies, David Shrigley London exhibition will find the funny side of old masters

Hyperallergic

Sarah Reisman, Art as Infrastructure at the Medina Triennial

Anna Lee, Taiwanese Artists Accuse South Korea’s Gwangju Biennale of Censorship

Aditya Lyer, Why Won’t Britain Return Looted Gold to Ghana?

Anna Lee, School of Visual Arts Faculty “Blindsided” by Course Cuts Amid $22M Deficit

Livia Caligor, Shu Lea Cheang Gives Trans Artists the Wings to Fly

Anna Lee, Halloween Comes Early With New Kristi Noem Statue in South Dakota

Monocle

Claudia Jacob, The Basque art museum with big ambitions

EDITOR’S PICK - Orlando Whitfield, State of the art: Is the gallery world on the brink of collapse or correction?: The days of buyers schlepping to DIY art spaces on the outskirts of big cities might be over but there are reasons for optimism amid the change.

The New York Times

Graham Bowley, The Odyssey of Priam’s Treasure, an Ancient Trove of Artifacts

Laura Cappelle, The High Cost of Being Present at the Venice Biennale

Observer

Simon Coates, How the Bayeux Tapestry Became a Tool For Diplomacy

Elisa Carollo, Ho Tzu Nyen Wants the Gwangju Biennale to Honor the Past, Not Relive It

Elisa Carollo, The Biggest Gifts to University Art Museums in 2026

Dan Duray, Grey Art Museum’s Alison Weaver On the Breadth of the University Museum Mandate

Urgent Matter

Adam Schrader, Chazen adds lynching prints in traveling ‘Pressing Issues’ show of WPA-era art

Adam Schrader, Artists stop selling to the EU over new packaging rules

Adam Schrader, Ralph Steadman ends his tour in Colorado, where regulators once banned his beer labels

Vulture

Jerry Saltz, Mary Heilmann, Troublemaker

The Wall Street Journal

Kelly Crow, 8 Stolen Henri Matisse Prints Have Been Found

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